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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"If your vote mattered, they never would let you do it." -Mark Twain
I'm so glad you decided to put this video out AFTER we went out to vote.
Well, they did another one before the election about the electoral college.
sacha atiyah would it have changed your vote? Yeah didn't think so.
sacha atiyah u coulda googled it yourself and learned something yourself
Literally every step of our voting process is designed to make the individual's vote mean as little as possible.
im convinced no one in charge really gives a shit about this country.
WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO KNOW WHO THESE ELECTORS ARE!
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.
If you do not want to know the electors do not open; sorry can't post the rest CZcams 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
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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
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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.
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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
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*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
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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
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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
Why? There's no reason to need to know.
theres literally no point in people voting
Do u understand that these electors make their decisions based on the the popular vote of that state?
@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
@@ProofnycCham yeah right...its even sinister than that, those "Electors" are controlled by the federal reserve/ central banking.....so you waste your time lmaooo
@@talonsilverhawk5763 yeah, with a reply like that, youre really clueless lolllllll....: Because the states have a say along with the people" lmaooooooo
@@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.
Then why bother vote ? lol
Bee Clair So your state picks the candidate you want. Duh.
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.
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.
"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.
Quite right. Its all an illusion. The majority is stupid so the small minority of critical thinkers cant evoke a change.
An outdated system.
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?
@@duckingcensorship1037 sheesh calm down bud. Not sure why but it seems like that offended you big time. Wanna talk about it?
@@quentin_1893 You're dumb
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.
we don't live in a democracy we live in a republic
Can someone tell the background music for beginning of this video?
"Super" democratic
We need to change this!
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.
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.
hang1iderswing according to Google, Trump had the popular vote.
Hillary had 48% to Trump's 47%
Cory Mck it was 48 to 47 Hillary won by a couple hundred thousand I think both nominees had 59 million
@@saulw6270 Hillary won by about 3 million i think
@@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.
This didn’t satisfy my question, who picks the candidates in the first place
The dude's at Bohemian Grove. It's not what the media tells you.
They play spin the bottle with Bill Clinton. The losers have to kiss Clinton. The winner gets to run for president
thank you ahmed did not know that but now i do
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.
Flawed system
why doesn't this have more views?
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.
Sad 😭 but truth .
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.
That is the answer. You summed it up easily.
They vote how THEY want to, the people's votes are a suggestion.
This man is fine
Trippy
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.
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.
I'm only voting to get free stuff
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.
yes let's get lesson on democracy by quatar. that will be productive.
Went i learn this in high school i was this is stupid. Electoral might be kkk
Learn how to focus a camera...
whos here before trump goes against Biden 2024. Hillary lost a long time ago btw.
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)
Move to Switzerland
Known as electors? It's called the electoral collage
read the second word of the XII Amendment. (p.s. collage?)
You voted for a party, that party backs a leader, democracy. Stop chatting crap aj+