Proceedings of elections in the USA

Organizing en conducting an USA election is a work for thousands of administrators. This includes categorizing and validating the results. The proceedings consists of crucial and complicated tasks, like arranging the elections on the right date, verifying the eligibility of candidates, Registering eligible voters and arranging voter rolls, opt voting equipment, creating ballots and setting up a considerable amount of workers for the election day.

One important function of the administrators is making sure that everyone who is qualified to vote is included in the list. People who haven’t voted in recent past still appear on the list, instead of being eliminated. People who appear on the polls and are not included in the list are given a temporary vote. Whether or not they are qualified is checked before their votes are counted.

Start of voting procedure

The voting procedure in de United states consists of two steps. First of all you are ought to register, the registration system is intended to terminate fraud. The USA doesn’t obtain a list of qualified voters. This is why it’s important to register. Through registering a voter is qualified. Voters register at their place of residence. In case they move house, they should register again.

Every state has its own procedure of registering. Formerly the system was used to discourage citizens who wanted to become a participant, these were mainly African Americans. Lately, registration systems have under gone a change, so the requirements become facile. An example is the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, which allows a citizen to vote when renewing their driving licence.[pic]The illustration above shows the used system for each country. USA uses the First Past the Post, Parallel-Parallel, List Proportional Representation and Two Round System.

Campaign

Usually a candidate