How To Become President
By: Alexia Chapman
Requirements
You must be 35 years of age. You must be a resident of the United States for 14 years, and a¨natural born citizen¨.
Primaries & Caucuses
Primaries: Voting without discussion, silent vote, selecting candidates for a principal.
Caucuses: Debating, and discussing, voting with presence, selecting candidates or deciding a policy.
National Convention
Purpose: The National Convention is to select the party´s nominee for president of the United States.
General Election
- People in every state votes for one president and vice president, when casting their vote there actually voting for a group of people known as electors.
Electoral College
There are a total of 538 electoral votes, the candidate that gets more than half 270 wins the election.