How Does the Voting System Work in the United States?

The United States uses a voting system to choose who will be their leaders, like picking a class president.

Imagine your classroom has a ballot box, which is like a big, strong container that holds all the votes. Each student gets a piece of paper with names on it, these are called candidates, or people trying to be chosen. You pick one name by marking it and then put the paper into the ballot box.

On election day, everyone in your classroom (or in a bigger place like a town or city) does this same thing. After all the votes are in, someone counts them, just like you count how many stickers each student got during a game. The person with the most votes wins!

Sometimes, if no one has enough votes to win right away, there’s another round where only the top choices get to compete again.

This is how people choose leaders all over the country, it's like having a big, exciting classroom election on a much bigger scale!