Quelles sont les différentes étapes des élections américaines ?
Comment devient-on président des États-Unis ?
Comment parler des élections avec un américain ?
Les articles extraits de la gamme Go English ci-dessous vous donnent toutes les clefs pour communiquer en anglais sur les élections américaines.
1. Primaries:
Candidates from different political groups travel to other states. They visit members of their political group and ask for their vote.
2. National conventions:
Each group chooses a candidate for president. The presidential candidate chooses a partner for vice-president. Now each political group has two people representing the group. All of the candidates travel around the US and ask the American people for their vote.
3. General election:
American citizens vote for one president and one vice-president.
4. Electoral college:
But the elections are not finished... Now a group of 538 people called electors must vote. Electors vote after the general election. The candidate who gets more than 270 votes is the winner!
Contenu extrait de
Go English Kids n°47
The final candidate chosen by a party to represent them in an election.
A collection of beliefs, legislative goals, morals and ideals. A political party’s platform outlines its principles and plans to govern.
Each US city, county or geographic area is divided by address into precincts, so as to assign polling places and gather votes. A precinct can sometimes be called an ‘election district’ or ‘voting district’.
The location in which you cast your vote, which may be in a school, church, community centre or other central public place, and is assigned based on your legal address.
A list of candidates and proposed laws that voters mark to make choices.
A ballot filed by a voter who cannot be present at their polling place on the day of the election. Absentee ballots are often filed by people who are travelling or living abroad, or serving in the military.
Counting the votes again because of a suspected error in totalling them the first time. George Bush was elected US president following a recount in Florida after the 2000 presidential election.
All the people in a country or area who are entitled to vote in an election.
An election held within a political party to choose which of the party’s candidates will be nominated for the general election.
INCUMBENT:
The person currently in a particular job or political office. Joe Biden is the incumbent president in the 2024 US presidential election.
Contenus extrait de
Go English n°105
CADEAU !
Lisez et écoutez le magazine Go English publié lors des élections américaines de 2020