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America's electoral college has stayed unchanged in over 200 years (Photo: barackobama.com)

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Antiquated but decisive - how America votes

There is something satisfying about an election process that sees people vote and find out who their new leaders are on the same day.

Most European elections are not so clear cut - the proportional or preferential voting systems tend to result in several days of counting followed by days or weeks of tense negotiations as party bosses try to cobble together a governing coalition.

But in the US case, the (usually) decisive end-product is the result of a bewilderingly intricate syst...

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

America's electoral college has stayed unchanged in over 200 years (Photo: barackobama.com)

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Author Bio

Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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