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so I voted for the first time last year I think ..? i had no idea who those ppl really were except gilibrand . there were three additional questions I was totally unprepared for I just kinda like, voted.

so this time I want to be prepared. I need help . Socorro ! !¡!

it says

Election District
Congressional District
Council District
Assembly District
State Senartorial District
Civil Court District


What are these ? define in the simplest language as possible.

What is Primary Election and General Election ?

like General Election for what ? so actually General Election is different from the Big Election where I can vote for president McAfee ..?

It depends on where you live. Check with whatever passes for a voter registry board in your country.

like when u have a Primary right ? U choose .. the candidate for your party, so why is there a General .. ...

what is a voter registry board

Where do you live?

It depends.

But in a nutshell: everyone in the nation votes for the president.

So the whole nation is in effect a "voting district" for the POTUS

Only people in your state vote for your governor, and only folks in your sate vote for your state's two Senators (the two folks each state gets to represent them in the US Senate.

So you don't worry about subdividing the state to vote for its one governor, nor for its two (usually at large) reps to the Senate of the whole USA.

But for other things you have to subdivide the state.

But each state also gets folks to represent the state in the US House of Representatives. But unlike the Senate, in which each state gets two, the number each state gets varies depending upon the states population. And the reps to the US House represent only certain geographic parts of that state. So that part of your state represented by that particular rep to the national House of Representatives would be that particular "Congressional district".

The rest of those things you list do not having anything to do with the politics of the whole nation, but only with your particular state.

States have their own legislatures (Congress on a state scale), and so do counties, and municipalities. So there are also districts to elect those local and state reps to the local and state and city legislative bodies.

The exact way it works varies. But you can figure it out for your particular state I am sure.

I don't understand what it is that you don't understand.

The primaries are for the purpose of picking a candidate within one party. The general is to run the best candidate (ie the one chosen by voters of the particular parties) against each other to decide who becomes president. Both steps are needed.

You build the foundation of a house, and then you build the rest of the house. Stopping at the primaries without the general would be like building the foundation and dispensing with the rest of the house.

When the primaries are done then you have one candidate for each party, but there are two main parties, and several minor parties. So after the primaries you still have several candidates. So how would decide which one becomes president with out running them all against each other in a general election?

If you're so out of it that you cant figure THAT out then you should do us all a favor and just not vote!

im esl . Pls explain to me within three succinct sentences .

so it means i can vote for President Sanders in the primary , then President Sanders or President Istvan during the general , and President Istvan during the presidential ?

If you want clear answers it would be nice if you could ask clear questions.

I am guessing that you are asking is this:

Is it possible to vote for one person in the state primary, and then vote for someone else in the general election.

The answer is that of course it is possible, and many voters do just that in every election.

In the Primary you can only vote for candidates within your party, but in the general you can vote for the candidate of either party.

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It aint that hard.

Elections are like a pyramid. There is a wide base of many candidates at the bottom, and one president who wins the office at the top. The primaries exist to eliminate the many rival candidates as the election progresses upward.

I myself, and most native born English speaking Americans don't actually worry about knowing the specifics of all this.

You just need to know what will be on the ballot in your particular geographic location of your residence. Some stuff on the ballot will be the same as everyone else in the nation (like who do want for president), some will be the same as the rest of the state, but not the nation (like governor, and US Senators), and some will be peculiar to your county, or municipality (local laws, local representatives). So you just get a sample ballot from your party, or from the League of Women Voters, or like that.

If you see that Ranked Choice Voting, Approval, or STAR is being proposed in your area, check it out. What most places have now, especially in crowded primaries, is "First Past The Post" (FPTP) where there is no way to vote against a specific candidate.