And in fact Barack Obama did quite well.

So lets say there is a conservative candidate, and he or she gets huge majorities in the States they win 80 in Texas, they get 80 in Mississippi, they get 80 in Oklahoma.

The votes will be theirs!

But then the rain stopped, people went to vote.

He is great. Which is why he's got my vote.

It says a lot about her peers who elected her.

If your candidate wins in California, they get all 55 of the state's electoral votes.

I'm good at bookkeeping.

Let's say you're a voter in California, a state with 55 electoral votes.

Let's add a Where clause where votes are gt 10.

What is interesting here is it's a winner take all in every state, except for Nebraska and Maine.

If this is the case, the very large margins secured by the losing candidate in the other states would add up to over 50 of the ballots cast nationally.

For the first time, they are free to cast their vote alongside whites.

So let's say in Florida that candidate, I should say, gets 49 of the vote.

To illustrate this, suppose party A go 724,000 votes and party B got 181,000 votes.

Some states will do it similar to the democrats where the delegates represent the candidates proportion to the votes they have

Let's say the same thing happens in California, that candidate got 49 of the vote, the opponent, say, gets 51 of the vote.

Let me demonstrate how to vote.

Mr. Bush had slightly more votes than Mr. Gore.

On a rare occasion, like in the year 2000, someone can win the popular vote but fail to gain 270 electoral votes.

And this other amount is computed through this hot function, and that hot function looks something like this.

That makes it 84, Linus, and 83, Russell.

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And I know it will rise to an unprecedented swell in November.

Suppose we are in an election, and there are two parties party A and party B.

It applies to coin flips and many of the other examples we discussed before.

I'll bring you the bill immediately.

I've decided not to give my support to that intervention in Mali.

So you could have candidate D, candidate E, candidate F and let's say let me do the percentages slightly different for fun

This means that the winner may have won and collected their electoral votes by small margins, winning just enough states with just enough electoral votes, but the losing candidate may have captured large voter margins in the remaining states.

Now, I said that pie charts are good for relative data.

It's got an ID.

What's remarkable about this chart is it's invariant to the total number of votes.

So A got 140,000, which is 7 times 20,000.

For the last 30 years, political scientists have observed that there is a constant decline in electoral turnout, and the people who are least interested to vote are the people whom you expect are going to gain most out of voting.

So, Rhode Island will have just as much to say in a tie breaker as California will over who will be president and they'll just keep voting until someone gets a simple majority of the votes by state.

Unlucky for them, Salvador Allende actually does get more votes than everyone else.

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Do you think it cast any doubt on the legitimacy of your election?

And then they have two at large votes that are decided the same way the kind of the winner takes all basis if you take 51 of the vote on a state wide basis you get two at large votes.

So isolation refers to the notion that no transaction can interfere with another's.

So we can let computers do all the complicated cryptography for us, and then we'll use the paper for verification.

Twelve votes.

In the event of a tie, the President will cast the deciding vote. Citizens!

Let's open it.