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-Be a US-born citizen
-Be at least 35 years old
-Have lived at least 14 years in the USA
-Haven't served two terms as President

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There are two different ways to elect those who will elect candidates from each party.

Primary Elections:
Each American votes for a deleguate representing a candidate in a party. The system differs by state. The results can be proportional or the winner takes the whole state. This elections can be "open" or "close", it will decide who can participate in this elections.

Caucus:
It's an assembly where we discuss and try to convince the other to vote for their candidate, and then there's a vote by show of hands that is reported to the state party.

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"Super Tuesday":
An important day during the primary elections. 14 States including California designate their delegates. This allows us to see political trends.

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After nomination of each party's candidates begins their campaign. This is an important time for each candidate because they have to convince the citizens to vote for their party and therefore to vote for them.
The candidates then travel all over the country to debate and organize meetings in major cities or even in universities or schools.

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Majors Electors are choose by each State to represent itself. This elctors are equal to the senators and the representatives.
Each State is devided in district, the number of them depends on the number of inhabitants. There are as many major electors as there are districts, so 538.
The most important State to conquer is California with 55 Electors, while Wyoming only has 3.

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Some States allow their inhabitants to vote before the official Election Day. This is done either by mail or dropbox.
We call that "Early vote" or "absentee ballot" for the military for exemple.

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Generally on the first Tuesday held election day. Millions of American go to the poll to elect major electors. To be president, a candidate need 270 major electors.
(The election of President and vice-President of USA by major electors is not until mid-December)

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During weeks following election day, they count each ballot and as they go along, they attribute the colour of the party that won the election in each state.
This period is very stressful for every inhabitant who hopes to see their party's colour displayed on the maximum key States, like California, that would allow their favorite candidate to be elected.

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About half of December, after the vote of the 538 major electors that form the Electoral College, officially announces the victory of one of the candidates,

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Members of the US electoral college have affirmed Joe Biden's presidential election victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.

The Democrat won November's contest with 306 electoral college votes to Republican Donald Trump's 232.

Under the US system, voters actually cast their ballots for "electors", who in turn, formally vote for candidates weeks after the election.

Despite this process, President Trump is not expected to accept the result.

Normally the electors do not get that much attention but this year, due to Mr Trump's persistent efforts to question and overturn the results - involving legal challenges which have been rejected by courts across the country - the state-by-state vote was in the spotlight.

Solidly Democrat California, with its 55 electors, was one of the last states to vote on Monday and took Mr Biden across the 270-vote threshold required to win the presidency.

Heightened security had been put in place in some states, including Michigan and Georgia, ahead of voting, which took place in state capitals and Washington DC.

In Michigan - a key swing state which Mr Biden won - legislative offices in the state capital Lansing were closed due to "credible" threats of violence.

The vote at the capitol building went ahead peacefully although a group of Republicans tried to enter the building to hold their own vote and were turned away.

"The people have spoken. It was a safe, fair and secure election," said Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat who had been the subject of a kidnapping plot thwarted by the FBI earlier this year. "After today, the results will be final."

Who are the electors?

Each political party with a candidate on the presidential ballot nominates or votes on its own slate of electors in the months prior to election day.

Once we know who won a state's popular vote, we know which party will appoint the electors for that state.

The US Constitution only states that electors cannot be members of Congress or others who currently hold federal office. This year, the most famous electors are former President Bill Clinton and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, chosen for the Democrats in New York.

Electors almost always vote in line with their pledged candidate, although in 2016 some did not and this prompted states to change their laws to try and prevent a recurrence. Analysts say there is next to no chance that Mr Biden's victory could be overturned.

The number of electors per state is roughly in line with the size of the population.

What happens next?

The results of the voting process will be sent to Washington DC and formally counted in a joint session of Congress on 6 January presided over by Vice-President Mike Pence.

That will pave the way for Joe Biden to be sworn in as president on 20 January.

Mr Biden plans to address the nation on Monday evening after the electors have voted, his transition team has announced.

He is expected to say that democracy has "prevailed" in the United States, adding: "The flame of democracy was lit in this nation a long time ago. And we now know that nothing - not even a pandemic - or an abuse of power - can extinguish that flame."

Last month, President Trump said he would leave office in January if Mr Biden were affirmed as the election winner by the electoral college. Nevertheless, he has continued to make unsubstantiated claims of election fraud and there are few signs he will concede.

Does Trump have any chance?

The quadrennial meeting of the US electoral college is usually a formality along the way to a presidential inauguration - a vestigial political event that long ago lost its power and relevance.

Donald Trump's scorched-earth strategy of contesting the results of the 2020 election, however, has given the proceedings new attention.

Although his legal team has had little success in challenging the results of the vote in multiple battleground states, the official recording of the electoral college ballots across the US will effectively lower the curtain on these long-shot judicial manoeuvres.

That does not mean the Trump team is giving up, of course. It is holding alternative electoral college proceedings with an alternate set of votes that will declare the president the real winner. They will continue with futile court challenges and, eventually, ask Congress to overturn the election results.

It is an alternative reality that Donald Trump's supporters may find more comforting than the one where Joe Biden is president-elect.

Given that the House of Representatives is controlled by Democrats, the official electoral college tally will have been duly certified by the states on Monday and federal law is on Mr Biden's side. Mr Trump's chances of success in the real world, however, sit squarely at zero.

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Electoral college confirms Joe Biden's presidential victory

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Members of the US electoral college have affirmed Joe Biden's presidential election victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office. The Democrat won November's contest with 306 electoral college votes to Republican Donald Trump's 232. Under the US system, voters actually cast their ballots for "electors", who in turn, formally vote for candidates weeks after the election.

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The swearing ceremony:
The winner of the november's election comes in front of the american citizens and the press to swear an oath. He/She thus promises to preserve, to protect and to defend the constitution of the Unites States of America.

As of noon, the elected candidate begins his/her term of office and becomes President of The Unites States of America.

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Watch Joe Biden get sworn in as the 46th president of the United States

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2 years after the beginning of the president's term 

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2 years after the beginning of the president's term 

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Midterm Elections:
As its name indicates, this election held at half the presidential term. That is two years after the new president'election. Still taking place on the first Tuesday following the first Monday of November, this election is of great importance.

This election is about the American Congress which is devided in two houses.
First, the House of Representative is composed by 435 seats renewed every two years.
Then, the Senate which is composed by 100 seats, senators have a six-year term. However, one third of the seats shall be renewed every two years.
In the presidential election, the majority of the congress is represented by the president's party. However in this new election, the trend can be reversed and the president's party can lose its majority. This would make the implementation of its program almost impossible.