Why Your Vote Didn't Count

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Who actually votes for the U.S. President? It's not the millions of people who vote at the polls - it's 538 people who are part of the Electoral College. What happens if they want to pick somebody else? They can do just that. And this is all enshrined in the Constitution.
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@traviswall1982 2 года назад

"If your vote mattered, they never would let you do it." -Mark Twain

@sachaatiyah3632 7 лет назад

I'm so glad you decided to put this video out AFTER we went out to vote.

@8523wsxc 7 лет назад

Well, they did another one before the election about the electoral college.

@E_Jay10 7 лет назад

sacha atiyah would it have changed your vote? Yeah didn't think so.

@saulw6270 7 лет назад

sacha atiyah u coulda googled it yourself and learned something yourself

@racewiththefalcons1 2 года назад

Literally every step of our voting process is designed to make the individual's vote mean as little as possible.

@roxxylala26 7 лет назад

WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO KNOW WHO THESE ELECTORS ARE!

@haroldfinch9144 7 лет назад

The only way that will happen is if they do not do what they pledged to do. Apart from that, the only reason to know would be to intimidate them into voting how YOU want.

@talonsilverhawk5763 5 лет назад

If you do not want to know the electors do not open; sorry can't post the rest RU-vid views it as spam or something. ALABAMA (GOP) 1. Frank Burt, Jr. 2. Will Sellers 3. Jim Wilson 4. Tim Wadsworth 5. Elbert Peters 6. Mary Sue McClurkin 7. Bob Cusanelli 8. Perry Hooper Jr. 9. Grady Thornton ALASKA (GOP) 10. Sean Parnell 11. Jacqueline Tupou 12. Carolyn Leman ARIZONA (GOP) 13. Bruce Ash 14. Walter Begay 15. Sharon Giese 16. Robert Graham 17. Alberto Gutier 18. Jerry Hayden 19. Carole Joyce 20. Jane Lynch 21. Foster Morgan 22. James O'Connor 23. Edward Robson ARKANSAS (GOP) 24. Jonelle Fulmer 25. Jonathan Barnett 26. Keith Gibson 27. Sharon Wright 28. Tommy Land 29. John Nabholz CALIFORNIA (DEM) 30. Dustin Reed 31. John Ryan 32. Faith Garamendi 33. Kathleen Scott 34. Timothy Farley 35. Analea Patterson 36. Janine Bera 37. Denise Wells 38. Mark Headley 39. Susan Eggman 40. James Donahue 41. Christine Pelosi 42. Saundra Andrews 43. Mark Olbert 44. Donna Ireland 45. Steven Diebert 46. Steve Spinner 47. Celine Purcell 48. Javier Gonzalez 49. Vinzenz Koller 50. Ana Huerta 51. Stephen Natoli 52. Andres Ramos 53. Gail Teton-Landis 54. Natalie Fortman 55. Shawn Terris 56. David Warmuth 57. Laurence Zakson 58. Nury Martinez 59. Sheldon Malchicoff 60. Cathy Morris 61. Benjamin Cardenas 62. Edward Buck 63. Olivia Reyes-Becerra 64. Robert Torres 65. Priscilla Richardson 66. Gwen Moore 67. Jacki Cisneros 68. John MacMurray 69. Marie Torres 70. Jane Block 71. Andrew Krakoff 72. Karen Waters 73. Dorothy Vann 74. Sandra Aduna 75. Gregory Willenborg 76. Carmen Perez 77. Raymond Cordova 78. Francine Busby 79. Patrick Drinan 80. Christine Kehoe 81. Katherine Lyon 82. Shirley Weber 83. Eileen Feinstein Mariano 84. Laphonza Butler COLORADO (DEM) 85. Terry Phillips 86. Mary Beth Corsentino 87. Jerad Sutton 88. Robert Nemanich 89. Amy Drayer 90. Ann Knollman 91. Sen. Rollie Heath 92. Hon. Polly Baca 93. Micheal Baca Story Continued Below CONNECTICUT (DEM) 94. Barbara Gordon 95. Ellen Nurse 96. Edward Piazza 97. Tyisha Walker 98. Christopher Rosario 99. Robert Godfrey 100. Steven Jones DELAWARE (DEM) 101. Lynn Fuller 102. Lydia York 103. Linda Cavanaugh DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (DEM) 104. Anita Bonds 105. Jack Evans 106. Franklin Garcia FLORIDA (GOP) 107. Ade Aderibigbe 108. Larry Ahern 109. Brian Ballard 110. Kristy Banks 111. Michael Barnett 112. LizBeth Benacquisto 113. Robin Bernstein 114. Pam Bondi 115. John Browning 116. Sharon Day 117. Dena DeCamp 118. Nick D 119. Jeremy Evans 120. John Falconetti 121. Peter Feaman 122. Kat Gates-Skipper 123. Joe Gruters 124. Debbie Hannifan 125. Blaise Ingoglia 126. Tony Ledbetter 127. Mike Moberley 128. Susan Moore 129. Joe Negron 130. Clint Pate 131. Ray Rodrigues 132. Carlos Trujillo 133. Robert Watkins 134. Susie Wiles 135. Christian Ziegler GEORGIA 136. Bruce Allen Azevedo 137. Brian K Burdette 138. Lott Harris Dill 139. John David Elliott 140. James Randolph Evans 141. Bobbie D. Frantz 142. Linda D. Herren 143. Rachel Blackstone Little 144. Deborah M. McCord 145. Michael Neil McNeely 146. Mary L. Padgett 147. Neil L. Pruitt 148. Joshua Kirk Shook 149. Frank B. Strickland 150. Baoky Nguyen Vu (resigned, will be replaced by alternate) 151. John B. White Story Continued Below HAWAII (DEM) 152. John Bickel 153. Janice Bond 154. Marie (Dolly) Strazar 155. David Mulinix IDAHO (GOP) 156. Jennifer Locke 157. Melinda Smyser 158. Layne Bangerter 159. Caleb Lakey ILLINOIS (DEM)* 160. Toni Preckwinkle 161. Carrie Austin 162. Silvana Tabares 163. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia 164. Pam Cullerton 165. Nancy Shepardson 166. Vera Davis 167. William Marovitz 168. Barbara Flynn Currie 169. John R. Daley 170. Michelle Mussman 171. Lauren Beth Gash 172. Kevin Duffy Blackburn 173. Jerry Costello 174. Carol Ammons 175. Mark Guethle 176. Flint Taylor 177. John Nelson 178. Don Johnston 179. * *POLITICO was only able to identify 19 of the 20 Democratic electors in Illinois. Party officials did not respond to requests for comment. We will update with the final name as soon as possible. Story Continued Below INDIANA (GOP) 180. Stephanie Beckley 181. Kevin Steen 182. Kelly Mitchell 183. Daniel Bortner 184. Laura Campbell 185. Jeff Cardwell 186. Donald Hayes 187. Randall Kirkpatrick 188. Edwin Simcox 189. Ethan Manning 190. Chuck Williams IOWA (GOP) 191. James Whitmer 192. Don Kass 193. Dylan Keller 194. Alan Braun 195. Kurt Brown 196. Polly Granzow KANSAS (GOP) 197. Ashley J. McMillan 198. Helen Van Etten 199. Mark Kahrs 200. Ron Estes 201. Clayton L. Barker 202. Kelly Arnold KENTUCKY (GOP) 203. Jim Skaggs 204. David Disponett 205. Robert Duncan 206. Michael Carter 207. Scott Lasley 208. Walter Reichert 209. Mary Singleton 210. Troy Sheldon LOUISIANA (GOP) 211. Chris D. Trahan 212. Lloyd A. Harsch 213. Charles L “Charlie” Buckels 214. Louis R. Avallone 215. Kay Kellogg Katz 216. Lennie H. Rhys 217. Garrett C. Monti 218. Steven “Scott “ Wilfong MAINE (3 D, 1 R) 219. Diane Denk 220. David Bright 221. Sam Shapiro 222. Richard Bennett (R) MARYLAND (DEM) 223. Lesley Israel 224. Robert Leonard 225. Lillian Holmes 226. Salome Peters 227. Hagner Mister 228. Claudia Martin 229. Courtney Watson 230. Karen Britto 231. Susan Ness 232. Wayne Rogers MASSACHUSETTS (DEM) 233. Nazda Alam 234. Mary Gail Cokkinias 235. Marie Turley 236. Dori Dean 237. Donna Smith 238. Cheryl Cumings 239. Marc Pacheco 240. Curtis Lemay 241. Jason Palitsch 242. Paul Yorkis 243. Parwez Wahid MICHIGAN (GOP)* 244. John Haggard 245. Jack Holmes 246. Kelly Mitchell 247. Judy Rapanos 248. Henry Hatter 249. Robert Weitt 250. Wyckham Seelig 251. Ross Ensign 252. Michael Banerian 253. Brian Fairbrother 254. Ken Crider 255. Mary Vaughn 256. Jim Rhoades 257. William Rauwerdink 258. Hank Fuhs 259. Joseph Guzman Story Continued Below *Trump led Michigan by 12,000 votes as of Friday morning, though the state hasn't officially been called. MINNESOTA (Dem) 260. Fred Knudson 261. Roger Gehrke 262. Marge Hoffa 263. Raymond Hess 264. Muhammed Abdurrahman 265. Betsy O’Berry 266. Mike Wammer 267. Mary Murphy 268. Jules Goldstein 269. Sherrie Pugh MISSISSIPPI (GOP) 270. Ann Hebert 271. Joe F. Sanderson Jr. 272. Bradley R. White 273. J. Kelley Williams 274. William G. Yates Jr. 275. Wirt A. Yerger, Jr. MISSOURI (GOP) 276. Tim Dreste 277. Janice DeWeese 278. Hector Maldonado 279. Sherry Kuttenkuler 280. Casey Crawford 281. Tom Brown 282. Cherry Warren 283. Scott Clark 284. Al Rotskoff 285. Susie Johnson Story Continued Below MONTANA (GOP) 286. Thelma Baker 287. Nancy Ballance 288. Dennis Scranton NEBRASKA (GOP) 289. Phil Berlin 290. John Dinkel 291. Chuck Conrad 292. Craig Safranek 293. Paul Burger NEVADA (Dem) 294. Dayananda Prabhu Rachakonda 295. Larry Jackson 296. Joetta Brown 297. Paul Catha II 298. Greg Gardella 299. Teresa Benitez-Thompson NEW HAMPSHIRE (Dem)* 300. Bev Hollingworth 301. Terie Norelli 302. Carol Shea Porter 303. Dudley Dudley *Clinton led New Hampshire by 2,500 votes as of Friday morning, though the state hasn't officially been called. NEW JERSEY (Dem) 304. Alaa R Abdelaziz 305. Tahsina Ahmed 306. Anthony Cureton 307. Lizette Delgado-Polanco 308. Edward Farmer 309. Christopher D. James 310. Leroy J Jones Jr 311. Retha R Onitiri 312. Marlene Prieto 313. Ronald G Rios 314. Hetty M Rosenstein 315. Kelly Stewart Maer 316. Mary Ann Wardlow 317. Heriberta Loretta Winters Story Continued Below NEW MEXICO (DEM) 318. Lorraine Spradling 319. Edward Torres 320. Noyola Archibeque 321. John Padilla 322. Roxanne Allen NEW YORK (DEM) 323. William J. Clinton 324. Andrew M. Cuomo 325. Kathy C. Hochul 326. Thomas P. DiNapoli 327. Eric T. Schneiderman 328. Carl E. Heastie 329. Andrea Stewart-Cousins 330. Bill de Blasio 331. Letitia A. James 332. Scott M. Stringer 333. Melissa Mark-Viverito 334. Byron W. Brown 335. Christine C. Quinn 336. Basil A. Smikle, Jr. 337. Melissa Sklarz 338. Mario F. Cilento 339. Rhonda Weingarten 340. George K. Gresham 341. Daniel F. Donohue 342. Stuart H. Appelbaum 343. Gary S. LaBarbera 344. Lovely A. Warren 345. Stephanie A. Miner 346. Katherine M. Sheehan 347. Anastasia M. Somoza 348. Sandra Ung 349. Ruben Diaz, Jr. 350. Hazel L. Ingram 351. Rachel D. Gold NORTH CAROLINA (GOP) 352. Linda Harper 353. Charles Staley 354. Karen Kozel 355. Martha Jenkins 356. Celeste Stanley 357. Donald Webb 358. Robert Muller 359. Jennifer Dunbar 360. Andrea Arterburn 361. Glenn Pinckney Sr. 362. Mark Delk 363. David Speight 364. Ann Sullivan 365. Lee Green 366. David Smuski

@duckingcensorship1037 3 года назад

Why? There's no reason to need to know.

@cs9756 7 лет назад

theres literally no point in people voting

@ProofnycCham 7 лет назад

Do u understand that these electors make their decisions based on the the popular vote of that state?

@talonsilverhawk5763 5 лет назад

@SevnLi Because the states have a say along with the people. And you should have paid attention in school, like it is taught around the same time as the Connecticut/great compromise and the 3/5 compromise on 8th grade/civics class or so

@martinleon3145 3 года назад

@@ProofnycCham yeah right...its even sinister than that, those "Electors" are controlled by the federal reserve/ central banking.....so you waste your time lmaooo

@martinleon3145 3 года назад

@@talonsilverhawk5763 yeah, with a reply like that, youre really clueless lolllllll....: Because the states have a say along with the people" lmaooooooo

@talonsilverhawk5763 3 года назад

@@martinleon3145 I'm not clueless I understand that the states get like 1/5 the vote and the people get 4/5 say. When I say you should have paid attention in school I'm calling them clueless you can't just turn around and say I'm clueless, It makes no sense to repeat what I say especially when you don't even back up your arguement. not that you can because states have more power than they should the congressional districts should be voting separate from the state as Madison said it was intended to be, you can thank Tennessee for that. I'm all reform but the electoral college is good and would be detrimental to abolish it, because states would want to succeed and would have a just reason to do such, options give states 1.5million votes added to popular vote, Let congressional districts vote and state can vote its 2 however it seems fit, I think one of these votes should go to the businesses of that state Or just leave it alone, and let the states that want to change how they vote do it, if can wanted a popular vote they would have already adopted NE and ME way of dividing their vote.

@illucifarian.iii_TheAI Год назад

im convinced no one in charge really gives a shit about this country.

@beeclair480 7 лет назад

Then why bother vote ? lol

@guyfromcollege 7 лет назад

Bee Clair So your state picks the candidate you want. Duh.

@beeclair480 7 лет назад

Yeah but hilary had the majority. but because of this stupid system she lost... Why bother vote if you are in a state that you know willl vote for x or y... Of course not everybody can think like this but still. Its a ridiculous system.

@TheWorldFromFerg 7 лет назад

Pure Democracy is mob rule child. If not you would always get the president chosen by the "white man", groups of people could terrorize others and the candidates would only need to concentrate on the highest populace dense area's. Please stop watching this garbage.

@int_int_int_int_int_int_int 7 лет назад

"Yeah but Hillary had the majority," California has 30m people residing there if there wasn't the Electoral College California, New York, and other big states would rule the election thus giving smaller states no say in the election.

@justinTime077 4 года назад

Quite right. Its all an illusion. The majority is stupid so the small minority of critical thinkers cant evoke a change.

@NaderR 7 лет назад

An outdated system.

@duckingcensorship1037 3 года назад

Calling things outdated is outdated. Lol. Honestly saying something is "outdated" is the worst argument possible. You just dismiss something before actually discussing it. Democracies have been tried for a couple thousand years. Are they outdated?

@quentin_1893 3 года назад

@@duckingcensorship1037 sheesh calm down bud. Not sure why but it seems like that offended you big time. Wanna talk about it?

@duckingcensorship1037 3 года назад

@@quentin_1893 You're dumb

@xenotbbbeats7209 Месяц назад

I tried to explain this to a young man I was training, and he got so upset that he didn't want to talk about it anymore.

@mazuyaki 7 лет назад

We need to change this!

@haroldfinch9144 7 лет назад

Changing it would mean that 9 states in the U.S. would have 100% of the voting power in an election. So either you are part of those states, which makes you tyrannical, or you are not which makes you naive.

@alexhenkell-malespin6585 7 лет назад

we don't live in a democracy we live in a republic

@darkbluebossa 7 лет назад

"Super" democratic

@bryanbroacosta 4 года назад

This didn’t satisfy my question, who picks the candidates in the first place

@gamersriseup1869 4 года назад

The dude's at Bohemian Grove. It's not what the media tells you.

@duckingcensorship1037 3 года назад

They play spin the bottle with Bill Clinton. The losers have to kiss Clinton. The winner gets to run for president

@johnnyaingel5753 7 лет назад

thank you ahmed did not know that but now i do

@hang1iderswing 7 лет назад

They were unpopular, but there was an increase in voter turnout by 4.7%. This year, Hillary won the popular vote, but lost because of the electoral college.

@CoryMck 7 лет назад

hang1iderswing according to Google, Trump had the popular vote.

@notthemama9986 7 лет назад

Hillary had 48% to Trump's 47%

@saulw6270 7 лет назад

Cory Mck it was 48 to 47 Hillary won by a couple hundred thousand I think both nominees had 59 million

@Blaze6432 5 лет назад

@@saulw6270 Hillary won by about 3 million i think

@talonsilverhawk5763 5 лет назад

@@notthemama9986 48 to 47 %; so in reality Hillary not having an absolute majority of popular vote makes the popular vote stance stupid to bring up as the responsibily for choosing the president should go to the house and the vice president to the Senate.

@guyfromcollege 7 лет назад

I like how AJ+ fails to mention that in about 40 states electors are forced to vote with their state. The remainder are small states people don't care about. But they vote with their state anyway.

@mdawg1247 7 лет назад

Flawed system

@ammarirfan911 7 лет назад

Can someone tell the background music for beginning of this video?

@newonevery740 7 лет назад

why doesn't this have more views?

@girlonatightrope9395 3 года назад

This man is fine

@thepokekid01 7 лет назад

Unfortunately, there are probably ways to manipulate every system, and I'm sure both parties would have figured out how by the 2nd or 3rd run.

@jrelpantera1982 7 лет назад

Sad 😭 but truth .

@NoLoVeLoStNoLoVfOuNd 3 года назад

So we vote and just hope they do the right thing? Do they really do what the American people want? I’m still confused, I wish this guy asked more questions.

@traviswall1982 2 года назад

That is the answer. You summed it up easily. They vote how THEY want to, the people's votes are a suggestion.

@TheTaylw1 3 года назад

That’s one of the reasons why I don’t vote. It doesn’t matter. If it actually counted, Then maybe I’d consider it.

@kipp2139 5 лет назад

This makes more sense to run more campaign funds in certain states. And really, the electors vote based on what the majority of their specific area votes. Electoral college is like a bunch of disproportionate popular votes in chunks, which sounds bad at first, but you come to learn that some states like Ohio, Florida, Texas, California, etc are more important, both candidates have equal chances for campaign funding and advertising in those areas. This is exactly how the founding fathers wanted it when this was made. The Articles of Confederation is a lot more similar to what these people were thinking, but the true democracy we live in today prevents this. This is why your vote matters, just more in certain places, but it never doesn't matter. There's just a middle man here, who stays true to what the people's majority say. The electors don't make their own decisions.

@Geniewitch 7 лет назад

Trippy

@jesshughes776 4 месяца назад

IT IS SO GOOD THE VOTERS DON'T DECIDE ANYTHING TO DO WITH OUR LEADERS. I DON'T VOTE BECAUSE OF MY CONVICTIONS AS A CHRISTIAN. BUT JUST THINK IF TRUMP WERE REELECTED. WE WOULD LOSE ALL RESPECT FROM OUR ALLYS. OUR CHARACTER AND CREDIBILITY AS A NATION WOULD NEVER RECOVER. I'LL SUM IT UP FOR YOU. TOBY MAC WROTE, TO LABEL WRONG OR RIGHT BY THE PEOPLES SIGHT/IS LIKE GOING TO A LOSER TO ASK ADVISE.

@gamersriseup1869 4 года назад

I'm only voting to get free stuff

@Artbug 7 лет назад

Learn how to focus a camera...

@savageboiangel7874 18 дней назад

whos here before trump goes against Biden 2024. Hillary lost a long time ago btw.

@tomhanksbff3023 7 лет назад

yes let's get lesson on democracy by quatar. that will be productive.

@sal4547 3 года назад

Went i learn this in high school i was this is stupid. Electoral might be kkk

@michaelgugliotta5206 5 лет назад

They forgot to mention in MOST states the electors have to vote for the popular vote. The other states should just pass laws making them vote for the popular vote.(Also it is still a problem but faithless electors(electors who vote against the party that nominated them) have never changed the outcome of an election)