Your Vote Counts!…This is a joke, right?

I guess this is a political week for me because I’m really starting to get pissed off at this nation. Not only are we dealing with the economic failure of this country, and the idiotic fools who are running it, but our future as well. I gotta say it’s not lookin’ too good. The choices we have for our future Commander and Chief are ridiculous. Actually it’s not even our vote that counts. As the election process goes, IT’S NOT THE PEOPLE WHO CHOSE THE NEXT PRESIDENT, IT IS THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. At the bottom of this e-mail is the explanation of how the President is actually elected if anyone doesn’t know or even gives a damn.

So who are these 538 people that make up the Electoral College??? I can honestly say I don’t think I ever heard of any of them nor have any idea about what they have accomplished to be sitting in a position to make such a decision. How’d they get there??…I assume somewhere along the way we choose them to be there, right?? Umm…I don’t remember…do you? Anyway…

Out of those 538, there are 27 electors in Florida which is the third highest number or electors behind California and Texas. What are these 27 people getting paid for when, ironically enough, Florida doesn’t even really count? And even if it does count, who cares anyway when the voting machines are broken or inaccurate...

Since I live in Florida I have looked up just who it is making this decision for me and here’s what I found…

Charles W. Kane Maria De La MileraSandra M. Faulkner H. Gary MorseArmando Codina Carole Jean JordanTom Slade Marsha NippertRobert L. Woody John ThrasherMel Martinez Feliciano M. FoyoAl Hoffman Alred S. AustinThomas C. Feeney, III John M. McKayCynthia M. Handley Darryl K. SharptonDr. Adam W. Herbert Berta J. MoralejoJeanne Barber Godwin Deborah L. BrooksDr. Dorsey C. Miller Glenda E. HoodDawn Guzzetta

All I can say is, WHO??? So no matter whom I choose to vote for, or what the popular vote is, it all comes down to the personal opinion and choice of each of these 538 people. So why even bother voting?

I'm politically exhausted :o(


Here’s how a President is chosen…

When the people vote, although they cast their vote for one of the presidential candidates, their vote is not counted towards the total vote count for President and Vice President, rather they are actually choosing Electors from their state. In turn, the Presidential Electors cast their vote, called "electoral vote", for the President and the Vice President. Confusing? You bet. Here is an example - let's say that 1 million voters in the State of Michigan come out and all of them vote for John Smith. Because Michigan has 17 electoral votes (see map above), John Smith would get a total of 17 votes for the Presidential Election, rather than 1 million votes.
This means that a Presidential candidate can have the majority of the popular vote (the votes cast by the people), but that doesn't mean he has won the Elections. Here is another example: let's say that total of 2 million people vote in South and North Dakota for candidate A, and this is the majority, and that 1 million people vote in Georgia for candidate B, and this is the majority for that state, the candidate B wins the Presidential Elections, as North and South Dakota have combined 6 electoral votes and Georgia has 15 electoral votes.
Keep in mind that the Presidential Electors could vote for anyone they choose to, but with rare exceptions they vote for the designated candidates. The Congress remains the last judge of the electors, but there has not been a dispute since 1877.
Basically, when you vote for President, you don't vote directly, but you "tell" the electors in your state who should they vote for.
Now, if no candidate for President manages to receive an absolute electoral majority of 270 votes out of the 538 possible, then the House of Representatives goes in session to determine the next President. The House chooses from the three candidates who received the most votes, and each state casts one vote, which is determined by the majority decision of the delegation from that state, i.e. total of 50 votes are cast. If a state delegation were to split evenly, that state would be considered as abstaining. If the House of Representatives also ends up in a tie 25 to 25 votes, then it goes to the United States Senate and the process is the same. And if the Senate also ties, then the current Vice President casts his/her tie-breaking vote.

(The above information was copied from… http://www.ogpaper.com/How-US-Presidential-Elections-work-200808.html)