An election is a formal decision-making process Decision making can be regarded as an outcome of mental processes leading to the selection of a course of action among several alternatives. Every decision making process produces a final choice. The output can be an action or an opinion of choice by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office.[1] Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy Representative democracy is a form of government founded on the principle of elected individuals representing the people, as opposed to either autocracy or direct democracy since the 17th century. [1] Elections may fill offices in the legislature A legislature is a type of deliberative assembly with the power to pass, amend and repeal laws. The law created by a legislature is called legislation or statutory law. Legislatures are known by many names, the most common being parliament and congress, although these terms also have more specific meanings. In parliamentary systems of government,, sometimes in the executive In the study of political science the executive branch of government has sole authority and responsibility for the daily administration of the state bureaucracy. The division of power into separate branches of government is central to the democratic idea of the separation of powers and judiciary [[File:JMR-Memphis1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[Lady Cardozo, Benjamin N. . The Nature of the Judicial Process. New Haven: Yale University Press, and for regional Administrative divisions are divisions of a political division. In other words, they are designated portions of a country. They are also called subnational entities. They are each granted a certain degree of autonomy, and are required to manage themselves through their own local governments. Countries are divided up into these smaller units to and local government Local governments are administrative office that are smaller than a state. The term is used to contrast with offices at nation-state level, which are referred to as the central government, national government, or federal government. This process is also used in many other private and business A business is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit that will increase the wealth of its owners and grow the business itself. The owners and operators of a business have as one of their main organizations, from clubs to voluntary associations A voluntary association or union is a group of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement to form a body (or organization) to accomplish a purpose and corporations A corporation is a legal entity separate from the shareholders and employees. In British tradition it is the term designating a body corporate, where it can be either a corporation sole or a corporation aggregate (involving more persons). In American and, increasingly, international usage, the term denotes a body corporate formed to conduct.
The universal use of elections as a tool for selecting representatives in modern democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype An archetype is an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype after which others are copied, patterned, or emulated; a symbol universally recognized by all. In psychology, an archetype is a model of a person, personality, or behavior, ancient Athens The History of Athens is one of the oldest of any city in Europe and in the world. Athens has been continuously inhabited for over 7000 years, becoming the leading city of Ancient Greece in the first millennium BC; its cultural achievements during the 5th century BC laid the foundations of western civilization. During the Middle Ages, the city. Elections were considered an oligarchic An oligarchy (oligocracy) is a form of government in which power effectively rests with a small elite segment of society distinguished by royal, wealth, intellectual, family, military, or religious hegemony. The word oligarchy is from the Greek words for "few" (ὀλίγος olígos) and "rule" (ἀρχή arkhē). Such states institution and most political offices were filled using sortition Sortition, also known as allotment, is an equal-chance method of selection by some form of lottery such as drawing coloured pebbles from a bag. It is used particularly to allot decision makers. In Ancient Athenian Democracy sortition was the primary method for appointing officials, a system that was thought to be one of the principal, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot.
Electoral reform There are many such movements globally, in almost all democratic countries, as part of the basic definition of a democracy is the right to change the rules. Political science is imperfect; electoral reforms seek to make politics work a bit better, a bit sooner. The solution to the problems of democracy tends to be "more democracy." describes the process of introducing fair electoral systems where they are not in place, or improving the fairness or effectiveness of existing systems. Psephology Psephology is the statistical analysis of elections. Psephology uses compilations of precinct voting returns for elections going back some years, public opinion polls, campaign finance information and similar statistical data. The term was coined in the United Kingdom in 1952 by historian R. B. McCallum to describe the scientific analysis of past is the study of results and other statistics Statistics is the science of making effective use of numerical data relating to groups of individuals or experiments. It deals with all aspects of this, including not only the collection, analysis and interpretation of such data, but also the planning of the collection of data, in terms of the design of surveys and experiments relating to elections (especially with a view to predicting future results).
To elect means "to choose or make a decision"[2], and so sometimes other forms of ballot such as the referendum A referendum , ballot question, or plebiscite (from Latin plebiscita, originally a decree of the Concilium Plebis) is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. This may result in the adoption of a new constitution, a constitutional amendment, a law, the recall of an elected official or are referred to as elections, especially in the United States.
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Q. I live in France and am planning to watch the results of the US election come out live, (I have CNN and CNBC on my TV and want to follow it state by state.) What time will the results start coming out for the east coast states? I read something about a restriction on calling the results until after polling has closed on the west coast. Does this apply to the networks calling states or just the whole country?
Asked by Tim B - Thu Oct 16 11:25:30 2008 - - 10 Answers - 2 Comments
A. Each state counts its own vote as soon as the polls close. I think the first state to finish voting is Kentucky or Indiana and that's 5.30pm local time, if my memory serves me correctly. That's 11.30pm in the UK and 12.30am in France. Within minutes the networks will call the state for one of the candidates or declare the contest too close to call. Americans finish voting early, particularly compared to the UK. Most states finish at 7pm or 8pm local time, so by 2am in the UK, 3am in France, most states in the Central Time zone have closed their polls and most votes have been cast. California, the largest state by population, is the only major state in the other time zones. If it's a landslide, the result may well be apparent by 2.30am… [cont.]
Answered by Charles S - Thu Oct 16 11:48:08 2008
