Since this is an international list, let's keep it factual... The STATES elect 
the president. It's not by popular vote. The states' populations determine whom 
the state will 'vote' for, via delegates, and even then, the delegate electors 
are not bound by the voting results in their state.

It has interesting consequences when you consider different voter turnout in 
each state relative to its delegate 'weight', and, more easily understood, the 
discrepancy from population growth and shift because delegate counts aren't 
adjusted with real-time numbers. Each state also has its own rules on who can 
vote or whether citizenship is even required too...


Cedric Chang wrote:
> 
> Voting is mob rule at worst, ineffective, pretend citizen involvement  
> at best.
> Voting leads to bad things, 90% of the time.
> Show me some examples of voting producing an better than average result.
> The last two nation-wide votes in the U.S. produced GWB ..... reason  
> enough to question the idea of voting.  And the democratic candidate  
> would have been just as bad, just in a different way.
> cc
> 
> McCain will keep the U.S. in Iraq for 100 years, Obama will rule us  
> with a velvet glove, and Hillary is beyond evil.  You want me to vote  
> for one of these ?
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