Electoral Points Proposal -- How Points Are Earned

Electoral Points Proposal
How Points Are Earned

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1. Qualification to Earn Electoral Points In the Electoral Points process, the points offered by any state (or by the D.C.) will -ALWAYS GO- to a candidate who is (1) an actual legally verified person, and (2) has earned at least 5.00% of the popular vote in a state (or the D.C.). Any candidate who has earned 4.99% or less of a state's popular vote receives no points. NO POINTS WILL EVER GO TO (1) ANY UN-NAMED CANDIDATE, OR TO (2) ANY UNPLEDGED ELECTORS, BE THEY A GROUP OR INDIVIDUALS. -AND- THERE WILL NEVER BE ANY INSTANCES WHERE POINTS ARE NOT AWARDED TO A CLEARLY NAMED PERSON. IN OTHER WORDS, NO LEFT OVER OR UNAWARDED POINTS --EVER--. The definition of a candidate in the Electoral Points Process is a clearly identified individual person who can be chosen by the eligible voting citizens of the particular state where the said candidate's name appears on the ballot, or where the said candidate is a properly certified write-in choice. Any candidate, whether they be listed on the voting ballot, or else be a write-in choice, shall be specificly ID'd by a Federal Election Identification Code. This special ID code would be included as a part of the Electoral Points Proposal. In each example presented below, the points awarding process considers -ONLY- those candidates who earn at least 5.00% of a state's popular vote, even if the overall combined popular vote percentage of all eligible candidates does not add up to 100 !! Never shall there be any instance where any points are not awarded to a qualified candidate, and never any cases of points either unrewarded or "left over".

2. Distribution of Points to All Candidates Example-1: In a state offering 4,000 electoral points, the leader's popular vote percentage share is 59.24%, while the candidate in 2nd place has a 36.89% share. No other candidates have at least a 5.00% share. The percentages of the two leading candidates are added together like so - 59.24 (1st candidate) plus 36.89 (2nd candidate) equals 96.13. Next, the leader's percentage share of 59.24 is divided by 96.13 for a result of 0.616249. When 0.616249 is multiplied by 4,000, the result is 2,465. So, the leader receives 2,465 points out of 4,000 while the candidate in 2nd place receives 1,535 points. 4,000 = 2,465 (1st) + 1,535 (2nd) Example-2: In a state offering 2,000 electoral points, the leader's popular vote percentage share is 52.71%. The candidates in 2nd and 3rd place have percentage shares of 32.95% and 11.17% respectively. The percentages of all three are added together like so - 52.71 (1st) plus 32.95 (2nd) plus 11.17 (3rd) equals 96.83. Now, the leader's percentage share of 52.71 is divided by 96.83 for a result of 0.544356. When 0.543794 is multiplied by 2,000, the result is 1,089. So, the leader receives 1,089 points out of 2,000, leaving 911 points to be divided up among the other two eligible candidates. Now, the 2nd place candidate's percentage share of 32.95 is divided by 96.83, and the result of 0.340287 when multiplied by 2,000 gives the 2nd place candidate 681 points. There are now 230 remaining points out of 2,000 and they are awarded to the 3rd place candidate, who is the loan remaining contender with at least 5.00% of the particular state's popular vote. 2,000 = 1,089 (1st) + 681 (2nd) + 230 (3rd) Example-3: In a state offering 5,000 electoral points, the leader's popular vote percentage share is 39.80%. The candidates in 2nd, 3rd and 4th place have percentage shares of 35.56%, 16.88% and 6.01% respectively. The percentages of all four are added together like so - 39.80 (1st) plus 35.56 (2nd) plus 16.88 (3rd) plus 6.01 (4th) equals 98.25. Now, the leader's percentage share of 39.80 is divided by 98.25 for a result of 0.405089. When 0.405089 is multiplied by 5,000, the result is 2,025. So, the leader receives 2,025 points out of 5,000, leaving 2,975 points to be shared by the other three eligible candidates. Now, the 2nd place candidate's percentage share of 35.56 is divided by 98.25, and the result of 0.361934 when multiplied by 5,000 gives the 2nd place candidate 1,810 points. This leaves 1,165 remaining points for 3rd and 4th place. Now, the 3rd place candidate's percentage share of 16.88 is divided by 98.25, and the result of 0.171807 when multiplied by 5,000 is 859. This leaves 306 points for the 4th place candidate. 5,000 = 2,025 (1st) + 1,810 (2nd) + 859 (3rd) + 306 (4th)

3. Maximum and Minimum Electoral Points a. Maximum Points Leading candidates can earn no more than seventy-five (75) percent of the available electoral points in any given state. It should be strongly noted that the mark of 75 % refers to the candidate evaluation figures explained in the above examples, rather than the actual percentage of popular votes in any given state. If the leading candidate does not have 75.00% of a state's popular votes, but is determined to have at least 75.00% of the votes just between themselves and any other eligible candidates, then it is that evaluation result which prevails. Example 1 - In a state offering 2,000 electoral points, the leader has 81.53% of the popular vote, and the 2nd place candidate has 13.29%. Under the normal procedures (see section 2 above), the leader would receive 1,720 points and the 2nd place candidate would receive 280 points. However, because of the Seventy-Five Percent Rule, the leader would receive only 1,500 points, while the 2nd place candidate would receive 500 points. 2,000 = 1,500 (1st) + 500 (2nd) Example 2 - In a state offering 1,000 electoral points, the leader has 72.74% of the popular vote, while the 2nd and 3rd place candidates have 13.25% and 7.82% shares respectively. Normally (again see section 2 above), the leader would receive 776 points, while the 2nd and 3rd place candidates would receive 141 and 83 points respectively. However, because of the Seventy-Five Percent Rule, the leader would receive only 750 points, while the remaining 250 points would be awarded as follows ... The popular vote percentages of the 2nd and 3rd place candidates (13.25 and 7.82 respectively) are added together for a sum of 21.07. Next, the 2nd place candidate's percentage share of 13.25 is divided by 21.07 for a result of 0.628856 which when multiplied by 250 becomes the figure of 157. On this basis, the 2nd place candidate receives 157 points and the 3rd place candidate receives 93 points. 1,000 = 750 (1st) + 157 (2nd) + 93 (3rd) EXCEPTION 1 - If the leading candidate is the ONLY person with at least five percent of a particular state's popular vote, then they will receive -ALL- of that state's available electoral points. EXCEPTION 2 - In certain situations, the leading candidate (and others) may receive an amount of points less than what would normally be awarded because of the Minimum Points Rule (see "Minimum Points" below). b. Minimum Points Each candidate who earns 5.00% or more of a state's total popular vote shall receive at least five percent of the total available electoral points in the particular state, as follows ... Group Priority || Total points offered || Minimum Points for each Rank || in each state || eligible candidate 1st (1) || 5,000 || 250 2nd (2) || 4,000 || 200 3rd (3) || 3,000 || 150 4th (4) || 2,000 || 100 5th (5) || 1,000 || 50 In situations where the regular point distribution methods used may not allow for a candidate to receive the specified minimum number of points, an appropriate re-distribution of the particular state's points would be performed.