As Joe Biden takes office on January 20 at the White House, we looked at what the American electoral system would have applied to the French presidential election.
Let us specify the theoretical nature of the exercise.
It is neither to promote nor to judge an electoral method.
France is not the United States.
It is a “one and indivisible” Republic, while Uncle Sam's country is a Federal Republic.
It is this federal logic which leads to retain the results by State, unlike the “one man, one vote” rule.
● Grand voters by department
The method consists in taking into account the result within the framework of a territorial unit, in this case the department, by adding to it the ultramarine territorial communities or specific colleges designating deputies to the National Assembly (the French from abroad ).
Just as in the United States, the number of "grand voters" of a state is indexed to its population, and is thus assigned to each
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