USA
and the Facts I Did not Know
1.
50 fifty states
2.
300 million population
3.
120 million took part in the election
4.
How many did not vote, I do not know?
5. 180 million ineligible or not registered including minors
6. Minimum age 18 years (migrant workers' right not stated, in the sense de
facto or de juro basis)
7. No compulsion or mandatory to vote
8. Mrs. Clinton got little over 600,000 votes above Mr. Trump but got
232 electoral colleges whereas Mr.Trump got 290.
9. Total colleges are 538 and the above tally does not add up to 538
(26 electoral colleges I cannot account for)
10. It has 9 time zones and four contiguous time zones.
Managing this election was an enormous task and hats off to the federal
officers managing it without a hitch.
Having said that the behaviour of the losing party is unbecoming and
they have no legal right to do so since president is elected by the
electors (electoral colleagues) and not the voters.
Losing Voters have to “eat the humble pie” for another four years.
Reproduction
Thanks
to Wikipedia
Eligibility
to Vote
Eligibility
to vote in the United States is established both through the federal
constitution and by state law. Several constitutional amendments (the
15th, 19th, and 26th specifically) require that voting rights cannot
be abridged on account of race, color, previous condition of
servitude, sex, or age for those above 18; the constitution as
originally written did not establish any such rights during
1787–1870.
In
the absence of a specific federal law or constitutional provision,
each state is given considerable discretion to establish
qualifications for suffrage and candidacy within its own respective
jurisdiction; in addition, states and lower level jurisdictions
establish election systems, such as at-large or single member
district elections for county councils or school boards.
The
United States Electoral College is the body that elects the
president and vice president of the United States every four years.
Citizens of the United States do not directly elect the president or
the vice president; instead they choose "electors", who
pledge beforehand to vote for the candidate of a particular party.
Each state gets to
choose as many electors as the combined total of the number of U.S.
senators and representatives to which the state is entitled.
The District of Columbia
gets at most the number of electors it would have if it were a state
but not more than the number of electors of the least-populous state
(currently three).
There are therefore
currently 538 electors, corresponding to the 435 representatives and
100 senators in the House of Representatives and the Senate, plus the
three electors for the District of Columbia.
The Constitution bars
any federal official, elected or appointed, from being an elector.
The
U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North
America, with Alaska in the northwest and Hawaii extending the
nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean. Major Atlantic Coast
cities are New York, a global finance and culture center, and capital
Washington, DC. Midwestern metropolis Chicago is known for
influential architecture and on the west coast, Los Angeles'
Hollywood is famed for filmmaking.
Capital:
Washington, D.C.
Dialing
code: +1
From GMT to UTC
GMT
was superseded as the international civil time standard by
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in 1960, when the International
Radio Consultative Committee formalized the concept of Coordinated
Universal Time, abbreviated as UTC.
It
is, within about 1 second, mean solar time at 0°.
It
does not observe daylight saving time. It is one of several closely
related successors to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For most purposes,
UTC is considered interchangeable with GMT, but GMT is no longer
precisely defined by the scientific community.
Zones used in the contiguous U.S.
From
east to west, the times zones of the contiguous United States are:
The
eastern standard time zone: (Zone R), which comprises roughly the
states on the Atlantic coast and the eastern two thirds of the Ohio
Valley.
The
central standard time zone: (Zone S), which comprises roughly the
Gulf Coast, Mississippi Valley, and Great Plains.
The
mountain standard time zone: (Zone T), which comprises roughly the
states that include the Rocky Mountains.
The
Pacific standard time zone: (Zone U), which comprises roughly the
states on the Pacific coast, plus Nevada and the Idaho panhandle.
United States time zones
Standard
time zones in the United States are currently defined at the federal
level by law 15 USC -260. The federal law also establishes the
transition dates and times at which daylight saving time occurs, if
observed. It is ultimately the authority of the Secretary of
Transportation, in coordination with the states, to determine which
regions will observe which of the standard time zones and if they
will observe daylight saving time.
As
of August 9, 2007, the standard time zones are defined in terms of
hourly offsets from UTC. Prior to this they were based upon the mean
solar time at several meridians 15° apart west of Greenwich (GMT).
Only
the full-time zone names listed below are official; abbreviations are
by common use conventions, and duplicated elsewhere in the world for
different time zones.
The
United States uses nine standard time zones.
As
defined by US law they are:
- The Atlantic standard time zone
- The eastern standard time zone
- The central standard time zone
- The mountain standard time zone
- The Pacific standard time zone
- The Alaska standard time zone
- The Hawaii–Aleutian standard time zone
- The Samoa standard time zone
- The Chamorro standard time zone
