Here's How To Make Your Vote Count In The 2016 Election

If the United States electoral system seems a little convoluted to you, you're not the only one. It's easy to assume that the candidate who gets the most votes becomes the next president of the United States. That's called the popular vote but the popular vote is not the deciding factor in a US presidential election. In fact the candidate is determined by something called the electoral college.

Educating ourselves is the one true way to make your vote count in the upcoming election. If you agree with first lady Michelle Obama that there is "only one person who is truly qualified to be president of the United States, and that is our friend Hillary Clinton" it is your responsibility to make your vote count. If you only need one indication that the upcoming election is reaching critical mass, just look at Bernie Sanders glowing endorsement of Hillary Clinton.

With Donald Trump up 5% in the polls it's going to take a fully united and educated effort to defeat the politics of fear in November. So please, check out this video from Question Time on how exactly your vote affects the results of the election. You owe it to your fellow Americans.

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