How does the US presidential election works?????
The primaries are a function of the political parties. You must choose which party’s election in which you wish to participate. Then you vote for one of the candidates belonging to that party. Each candidate has a slate of delegates pledged to him that have been approved by the state party. The local party rules or state law may determine if the number of delegates sent to the party national convention is on a winner takes all basis or if they are prorated on the basis of what percentage of the vote each candidate won in each state. At the convention the delegates are pledged to their candidate on the first ballot, but not after that. The convention chooses the party’s candidates for president and vice-president. In the final election, the people in each state vote for their favorite candidate. Each candidate has electors pledged to him. The candidate who gets the most votes wins the right to send his electors to the state capitol. where they vote for him. The state legislature sends t
