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Show Why Politics Affects I Your Home BY MAUD WOOD PARK (Chairman Natlon.il League of Women Voters) Tin i i i !: i , OLLBGE. Vou will nol vote for the men you want for president do) Vice preidcnt when you mark your ballot on Nov. why. The frumers of the constitution provided, pro-vided, ii 1 789. that the people should elect presidential electors for their respective states who Will afterwards; assemble and vote for the. president and vice president. The constitution declares that the people shall choose presidential doe-tors doe-tors for their respective males, the number in each ease being equal to the number of senators mid representatives- allowed (he state The votes of the electors arc sent sealed to Washing-ton, then opened and counted in congress. The candidate candi-date receiving u majority is elected president. Our C0Mtltu(tI6n-fra,nicrs feared that ' popular vote would plunge the countr Into tumult Jind disorder, und believed that the people .it large wi re not qualified to choose the ohlef executive. exec-utive. Accordlr.gh the arranged that an Intermediate body .of the best citizens citi-zens i-hould do this Tlnil I have changed The elemenl of choice and deliberation so carefully care-fully arranged for ban totally disappeared. disap-peared. The elic .,r.- elei tn lie- eauSe they win vote for certain candidates. candi-dates. Each party runs a seH of elec- toral candidates, and often the name of the candidate for which they stand 'is put at the top of the voting ticket that the voter win be quite sure to get the one belonging to his party. I As s rule eacfl man votes an en-, en-, tire set. but occasionally votes arc : ml-cd. Electors belonging to minority 'parties occasionally are ihosen These of course, cast their vote at t.ho mect- Ing of the electoral board for their own candidate, and. although d mln-I mln-I orlty vote, has enual weight with any i other when the 1 otes are counted at Washington. In 1S4 New York state hud 30 electoral elec-toral ota Uoth big partbs ran electoral tickets. The Democratic lNi ! for Cleveland determined the irhdle ountryi The hundreds and thousands 'of votes cast for Ltlutnc did not swell I his support In other states. Thus the campaign turns In stales I where the parties uiv about evenly divided, di-vided, for It is not worth while to try to swell a minority In states where ! there Is little chance that it will become be-come a majority. The president of the United States is : not elected by & popular majority but by state rnajoritits. Vou arc one of 26.0oO.000 women ; eligible to vote in No ruber providing you have registered You will have a voire In determining who y our pres- i I idem Is to be. Vote for the elector! who will olco I your choice. |