So, the question is, which department is responsible for the presidential election in the United States? Or, who will organize the presidential election?
First of all, the presidential election is not led by the Senate, nor by the House of Representatives, nor by the Supreme Court. Organized by the Federal Election Commission of the United States;
In addition to the Federal Election Commission, each state and county has its own election commission. The members of these election committees are composed of the same number of representatives from communist party and the Democratic Party, and there are also judges in various places. The number of participants in the three parties is equal; They are responsible for coordinating and organizing all matters of the election.
The American presidential election is not as simple as the people who eat melons think. There are only two names, either Trump or Biden; Voting in the American general election is actually very troublesome, and the number of delegates to be elected by voters is actually very large.
In addition to presidential candidates, States also have proportional candidates for re-election of senators and representatives (senators serve for six years, one-third of whom are re-elected for two years, and representatives serve for two years, all of whom are re-elected for two years).
In addition to the members of the federal parliament (Congress) who need to vote, voters in each state also need to vote for members of their respective state parliaments and members (representatives) of their respective city, county (county) parliaments.
Therefore, voters want to elect not only the president; And the situation in every state in the United States is different; The design of ballot papers is also different; Therefore, it is necessary to organize and supervise the voting by an election committee that can represent the Party and democratic parties and has judges.
The number of participants in this year's US presidential election should be record-breaking; Judging from the votes announced by Trump and Biden, there are at least1.800 million votes;
So many tickets have to be manually checked one by one; Then through the machine scanning code statistics; If it is a postal ballot, many folded or damaged ballots need to be cleaned one by one, and finally scanned. So naturally, the effect is slow. With such a complicated ballot, remote electronic voting is also impossible.
If any party participating in the election has doubts about the vote statistics, they can bring a lawsuit to the local court according to the relevant laws of the United States. For example, the Trump election team filed lawsuits in several state courts in the United States.
After receiving the complaint, the court will ask the state election committees or state governments to respond; Of course, there must be conclusive evidence in court proceedings; If you can't produce evidence, you can imagine losing the case.
After the election results are finally announced through legal procedures, the election committees at all levels naturally dissolve themselves; By the mid-term elections, each state has to reorganize a group of people. However, the Federal Election Commission is not necessary.
In short, the American election is very complicated; It is not as simple as pressing a button or clicking a mouse-from determining the identity of voters and their constituencies to setting up polling stations, supervising the voting process, counting votes, etc. It was all done by the Election Committee.