In most states, the winner of the popular vote

question 18 options:

gets most of the electoral votes

gets a proportionate number of electoral votes

gets none of the electoral votes

gets all of the electoral votes

gets a proportionate number of electoral votes

Explanation:

In most states the election results are through a proportional system, ie the winner of the elections is the one who gets a proportional number of electoral votes.

In other words, to know the elected candidates, one must first know which were the victorious political parties to state, then, within each party grouping that got a minimum number of votes, observe which ones are the most voted. Then are the elect. This is even one of the reasons for giving the mandate to the party and not to the politician.

Thus works the proportional system: to reach the final result, the so-called electoral (QE) and party (QP) quotients apply. The electoral quotient is defined by the sum of the number of valid votes, divided by the number of seats in dispute. Only isolated parties and coalitions that reach the electoral quotient are entitled to a vacancy.

From this, the party quotient, which is the result of the number of valid votes obtained by the isolated party divided by the electoral quotient, is analyzed. The account balance corresponds to the number of seats to be occupied.

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)