How is mathematics Involed in elections>>>>?

[sweet143]

How is Mathematics involed in elections.... except in polls...


also can you give me graphs of the recent or past elections


Also some ideas Please help thanks

[Billy Shat]

People count votes and add them together. That's math.

[g239b]

Use Statistics to determine the likelihood of winning from a more restrictive population sample (such as the polls run by news agencies).
Again use Statistics to determine your appeal to certain population groups/demographics. That allows you to target the areas that you think you will win if you get exposure to them.
There are a lot of games that you can play with Statistics to extrapolate or project the outcome of an event such as an election or the signing of a bill into law.
Majority wins so you can be "smart" about how you get that majority.

[ben h]

There are many many statistical programs that take days to compute that attempt to predict the results of an election taking many different scenarios into account... It is kind of like how they predict the weather.

[William B]

If you are doing a report, the electoral college vote for US President is a good topic. Each state gets votes = to US Representatives plus its 2 US Senators. There is a total of 538 votes, a majority of 270 needed to be elected President. Except I think for two states, you just need to get a majority of votes to get the entire electoral vote of a state. In 2000, Gore got more of the popular vote than Bush about half a million, but Bush got more votes in the Electoral College.