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Presidential Selection Process

By KGL

  • Campaining and Fundraising

    Campaining and Fundraising
    During this step presidential candidates run fundraisers to help them pay for their campaigning across the country to be able to gain support from the people and gain secured votes from the public. Candidates use this fundraising money to pay for their campaign.

  • Caucases [Step 2]

    Caucases [Step 2]
    Caucases and Primaries are two different ways to choose presidential candidates for each party.
    Caucases are elections in which potetian candidates tour around the state at schools and other public places to gain support for them. Later, state officials vote on who should be the presidential candidate. Which ever potential candidate obtains the most votes, is who shall e running against the opposing party in the presidential elections.

  • Primaries [Step 2]

    Primaries [Step 2]
    For primaries, the poeple are the ones who vote on potential presidential candidates.
    1)Open:doesn't require voters to be affiliated to a party to vote.
    2)Closed:oters must be affiliated to a specific party
    3) Semi-Closed: voters can only vote for their respective party's primary
    4)Semi-Open:voters don't have to declare who they will vote for before the step into the voting
    5)Blanket:a qualifying primary is applied to a partisan election
    6)Run-Off:ballot is not restricted to one party

  • Political Conventions

    Political Conventions
    Political conventions are meeting of either party on which the elected presidential candidate gives a speech outlining what will be done if they are elected president and their plans for the future of the country.

  • Election Day

    Election Day
    This day is when presidential candidates for both parties go head ot head to see who will be the next president of the united states of america. All people of age 18 or older are eligible to vote for their preffered candidate in this country wide event.

  • Vote of the Electoral College

    Vote of the Electoral College
    After al of the civilian votes are casted, the electoral college have the final vote between both presidential candidates. Each states' electors meet in their capitol to cast their vote for President and Vice President, With all of the electoral college votes added up, is how the next president is chosen. The candidate with the highest number of electoral votes is the winner.