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【Diet members have been received special treatment】

As to the ones who were qualified of being received the legislator's pension then, they paid installment until retiring, and they can receive 80% of the installment all together.

Needless to say, Diet members are representatives from us the nation, so we need them to do work enough, and it is indispensable to cover the necessary cost with the tax, but is the money used effectively? How much is it in the bounds of common sense? We have to watch it with how much statesman work, for we've employed Diet members as the one who use our tax.

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【Diet members have been received special treatment】

《Yamatsuri town has adopted daily pay for members of parliament》

Our tax isn't only used to Diet members but to the members of parliament in prefecture, city, town and village, annual expenses are paid to them.

It doesn't always mean except for Diet members, all of those members in the parliament aren't present at the council every day. The number of days the one has attended at the parliament is within a hundred days a lot.

So the council members in local area who receive from ten million to twenty million a year have got the large...

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メイちゃん、元気か？(*^▽^*)

【Diet members have been received special treatment】

《Yamatsuri town has adopted daily pay for member of parliament》

So the members of parliament in the local area who receive from ten million to twenty million yen a year have got the large amount of money if converting into daily pay.

So the Yamatsuri town in Fukushima prefecture have abolished the salaries of members of Parliament and adopted system of paying daily allowance, according to the number of days of being present at the parliament from 2008.

As having given up the salaries of members of parliament paying...

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【Diet members have been received special treatment】

《Yamatsuri town has adopted daily pay for the member of parliament》

As having giving up the salaries of members of parliament paying three million and three hundred thirty thousand yen a year, adopting daily pay of thirty thousand yen to the single member of the parliament a year, so the payment a year has dropped from three million and thirty thousand to no more than ninety hundred thousand yen a year.

Lots of members of parliament in the local area have honest business in between being engaged in the member of the parliament.

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【Diet members have been received special treatment】

《Yamatsuri town has adopted daily pay for the member of parliament》

So the people in Yamatsuri town seemed to think the activity on politics should be a volunteer.

Even if being elected the members of parliament, they can accept no more than ninety hundred thousand yen alone, and they are engaged in the volunteer, everyone finds it ridiculous to spent a large amount of money on the election, and supporters can’t say they vote and being unable to ask candidates anything in return.

Eventually, it cost not much money, and very clean…

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【Diet members have been received special treatment】

…and very clean election seemed to be done then, but after that there has been the voice of the money being too low, and discussion continues at present.

《There is a privilege of not being arrested》

Even if doing something bad like violating the law, the Diet members have the privilege of not being arrested. Some people may have been angry with it, how outrageous it is, but there is a reason for it.

Diet members aren’t arrested when the Diet was in session. If the police and prosecutor tried to arrest as a suspect of case, they can’t

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【Diet members have been received special treatment】

《There is a privilege of not being arrested》

As to the Diet member who was arrested before the Diet was in session, if there is a request from the National Assembly, it has to be released as long as the Diet was in session. It’s one of systems which prevents the government from doing something tyrannical.

For example, let’s suppose that there was a bill which the government wanted to form by all means, but the opposition party was opposed to it, and it was about to be voted down with only one vote.

Then two of members of the opposition…

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【Diet members have been received special treatment】

《There is a privilege of not being arrested》

Then if two of members of the opposition party were arrested and were unable to be present at the National Assembly, the bill would be formed, so the government would make the police and prosecution investigate the reason of arresting the Diet members in the opposition party…

There couldn’t have been the government in Japan at present, neither the police nor the prosecution would never do such a thing, but there has been the system which prevents the government from doing by any chance.

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【Diet members have been received special treatment】

《There is also a way of requesting permission for arrest》

But some people say as being the Diet member, they aren’t arrested, it’s unfair, and if it’s suspicion is corruption, the nation can’t convince it, so even if the Diet is in session, there has been the system of being able to arrest as long as the Diet permits.

As a court issues the arrest warrant, if the police or prosecution ask the arrest warrant to the court, the court requests to allow of arresting to the Diet through the Cabinet, asking to permit to arrest.

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メイちゃん、何かあったらこのスレでも良いから、レスしてね😊

【Diet members have been received special treatment】

《There is also a way of requesting permission for arrest》

The suspect is arrested as long as the House of Representatives allows if it’s the member of the House of the Representatives, and if it’s the member of the House of Council, the House of Council allows, it’s all right.

Each of House votes separately and if there is approval of majority, the arrest is permitted, but it’s the time when the arrest warrant is necessary. If it’s red handed, the arrest warrant doesn’t need.

A Diet member who did….

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【Diet members have been received special treatment】

A Diet member who did something unscrupulous to a woman was arrested with red handed in the midnight on the street of Roppongi in Tokyo prefecture.

《Not being asked for the responsibility on its remark》

There is other privilege on the Diet members. As to the content of its remark in the process of its speech or discussion in the Diet, none of Diet members are asked for responsibility like defamation. We call it the privilege of immunity.

The privilege has been guaranteed so as to discuss without hesitation for Diet members.

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But the privilege has never been guaranteed outside the Diet. Its privilege is inside of the Diet alone

【The system on the Presidential election in America】

If comparing to the election in Japan, a battle in which the nation got excited more Japan in the Presidential election of America. First of all, getting the position on the candidate for the President in the political party, and challenging the Presidential election, and then the qualification on the President is asked.

《The way for being the President is hard》

Keeping fighting for almost two years so as to be the President in America

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《The way of being the President in America is hard》

At first, the battle is done so as to be nominated as the candidate in the political party, either the Democratic Party or Republican party, going around all over America and appealing for support. It starts two years before the Presidential Election.

After that the Presidential election. A large amount of CM is broadcast all over America, it costs too much, and its fund is made up with the donation from the eligible voters in America, and lots of volunteers rush to and support the....

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《The way of being the President in America is hard》

...and support the candidate without being paid anything, and there is the base on democracy of choosing the representative by nation itself there.

While the Republican Party decided John McCain as candidate quickly, the Democratic party developed the competition between candidates, Barak Obama vs Hilary Clinton. It was a fierce battle as if two of them fought in the Presidential election. Obama won the nomination battle on the Democratic party by hair then, but it wasn't over, and ...

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《The way of being the President in America is hard》

...and the battle on the Presidential election starts from there.

If the candidate of Obama was elected, he is the first President from the black people, and if McCain is done, Sarah Palin vice President was born. It's the first vice President of woman.

Anyway, as both of them have the element of the first in the history, the attention degree was so high from the world that the large amount of reports as if it had been the Presidential election of their own countries continued overseas

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Eventually, Obama was elected and after four years was reelected in 2012.

Donard Trump who was the real estate mogul declared bid for the Presidential election in 2016 as the candidate from the Republican party and plowed its way forward.

On the other hand, Hilary Clinton who used to be the Secretary of State and Bannie Sanders who was the Senate developed fierce battel for the candidate, and it was paid attention.

《There is the condition on being the President》

Everyone can stand for the Presidential election as long as being an...

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《There is the condition on being the President》

Everyone can stand for the election of President in America as long as being an America... it's in the wrong. Even if being the American, there is the condition on it.

Being born in America and having the nationality of America, and number of years of staying America is more than fourteen years, and the age is over 35.

America is a nation of immigrants, and lots of immigrants have come to America every year and got the U.S. citizenship. They become Americans. But if a foreign country...

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《There is the condition on being the President》

If　a　foreign　country　sends　a　spy　to　America　intentionally　and　makes　the　spy　get　the　U.S.　citizenship and be the President in America...if thinking like that, Americans think they want the one who became the America half way through to refrain from being the President in America

For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger who used to be the governor in California. He was born in Austria, and moved to America and having the US. citizenship, so he became the governor in California, but he can't stand...

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《There is the condition on being the President》

…but he can’t stand for the Presidential election in America. The criterion is difference between the governor in the state and the President in America.

As to the candidate of Obama from the Democratic Party, his father was a Kenyan, but his mother was an American, and he was born in Hawai and got the U.S. citizenship, so his condition of being the President in America was satisfied enough.

On the other hand, the candidate of McCain was born in Panama Canal basin. Whether or not he was…

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《There is the condition on being the President》

Whether or not he was born in America. It became a controversy a little, for Panama is the nation where it’s in the Central America. It’s not America exactly, so his condition of being the President isn’t satisfied enough, is it?

The father of the candidate of McCain was a serviceman in the navy, and the Panama Canal basin is the base established by the US army along the Panama Canal so as to guard the Panama Canal and the candidate of McCain was born there.

Even if it’s overseas, inside…

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メイちゃん、オッハー、元気か？😊

【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《There is the condition of being the President》

Even if it’s overseas, inside the base of U.S. army is treated with the territory belonged to America, so its judgement was the condition of being born in America was satisfied.

It’s off the subject, even if not having your nationality of America, if having a baby in America in the future, the child who was born in America can get the nationality of America automatically, and the child stays there for fourteen years and is over age of 35, it can stand for the Presidential…

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…it can stand for the Presidential election in the future.

In short it may be possible for you to be in the condition of being the parent of the candidate of the President in America in the future. It seems that America is an open country, the author said like that.

《Who is Obama?》

The name of Obama makes us think as if he were a Japanese American. The Obama city in Fukui prefecture supported him because of his name, but his family name is at Kenya in Africa, and it means a burning spear.

His formal name is Barack Hussein Obama.

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《What is Obama?》

As including the name of Hussein, his grandfather of the side of his father was an Islam. Barack means the one who is the privileged one in Arabian, but Obama himself is a Christian.

Obama’s father studied abroad Hawai university in 1959 at the age of 23, and got to know a white woman there and got married in 1960, and Obama was born in the next year.

His father’s school grades were excellent, and graduated from Hawai university in three years, winning the scholarship and advanced to the law school of Harvard university.

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《What is Obama?》

Obama’s father advanced to the postgraduate school of Harvard, but got divorce from his wife, and went back to Kenya.

Though the couple of the white and black one isn’t unusual at present, when Obama’s parents got married in 1960s, the marriage between the white and the black one used to be against the law more than half of the states in the whole America.

The place where two of them met was multiethnic Hawai where there were lots of Japanese Americans, and there was so little racial discrimination there that the …

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《What is Obama?》

…and there was so little racial discrimination there that the marriage between two of them was possible.

After returning to Kenya, Obama’s father got married to an Indonesian who got to know in Hawai university. Obama led his life at Jakarta in Indonesia, but his mother was afraid he couldn’t get enough education in Indonesia, and he alone was made to come back to Hawai at the age of 10, and was made to go to school in Hawai from the house of his grandparents of the side of his mother, but his mother got divorce, and…

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《What is Obama?》

…and returned to Hawai again.

Obama’s school grades were excellent like his father and went to University of Columbia in New York, and after graduating from university, tackled the welfare activities in Chicago.

Once being away from the activities, he went to law school in Harvard where his father also learned, and got to know Michelle who is his wife there. she was also a black one and an accomplished one, and after graduating from Princeton University and went to law school in Harvard.

After getting lawyer’s …

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《What is Obama?》

After getting the lawyer’s license, Obama returned to Chicago, and continued the welfare activities. He was elected the member of the state legislature in Illinois through the welfare activities, and stood for the election on Senate in America and was elected in 2004, and he was only black Senate then.

While the mass media expressed Obama as candidate of the black, but how did other black ones received it? It wasn’t so simple as Japan.

Black ones means descendants of the ones who were taken to America as slave…

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《What is Obama?》

…other blacks in America thought like that, but Obama was a son of an elite who came to America with his own will, in addition one of his parents is from white ones, so he wasn’t an authentic black one, neither he belonged to their companion, the consciousness has existed extensively all over other black people. Even if the color of his skin is black, admitting the authentic black is hard, there is invisible wall there.

He had hard time owing to his name after the synchronized terrorists attack in 2001, for he was…

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【The system in the Presidential election in America】

...for he was mistaken for Osama Bin Laden, moreover his middle name of Hussain is the same as the former President in Iraq, so his political opponents said Hussain on purpose and adopted the way of making an impression as if he'd had something to do with the Islamic extremists.

《What is McCain？》

While young Obama who stood for the Presidential election at the age of 47 August in 2008, McCain who did at the age of 72, and if the latter was elected, he would be the oldest President in the history of America. He grew up in the family of...

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《What is McCain?》

He grew up in the family of navy purely, and he himself had experience of serving on active duty in the Vietnamese War as pilot and being a captive.

John McCain was born at the basin in the Panama Canal August in 1936, and his grandfather promoted to the Admiral of the navy, and McCain himself was from the navy, and his son was a marine corps, and used to be sent to Iraq.

While the members of the Congress say bravely, making its son enter the military force is exceptional.

McCain graduated from the Naval Academy in...

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《What is McCain?》

McCain graduated from the Naval Academy in 1958 and was sent to Vietnam in 1967, and America was in the middle of the Vietnamese War then, and the U.S. army which had a rough time with the Vietnamese War started bombing Northern Vietnam.

McCain was assigned as a pilot of carrier based plane of aircraft and took part in the bombing Northern Vietnam, but his attack aircraft heading for Hanoi so as to bomb was shot down by the military force in the Northern Vietnam, and he was taken a prisoner then.

While being a captive…

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《What is McCain?》

While being a captive is disgraceful in Japan, it makes the one who became the captive a hero at the war in America.

When McCain was the captive, his father was formally inaugurated as the commander in the Northern Pacific Ocean. It’s a top position of the navy in the Vietnamese War, and as the military force in the North Vietnam knew it and tried to release McCain from a political judgement, but McCain refused to be released, to leave his friends behind, and it secured his position of the hero.

The military force in…

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

The military force in America decided to withdraw from Vietnam in 1973, McCain was released at last, could return to America. He had been the captive for five and a half year.

After 10 years, he stood for the election of the Lower House in Arizona as candidate from the Republican Party and was elected then, and needless to say, his reputation as the hero in the Vietnamese War was effective, and after that he took up a new course of life as Senate in 1986.

《At first, struggling for the appointment on the candidate inside the political…》

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《At first the race for appointment on the candidate inside the political party》

Being the candidate so as to stand for the Presidential election is hard in the first place. There have been the two of the great political party in America like the Democratic Party and Republican one, and either of the candidates will be elected as the President.

So the one who tried to be the President has to be chosen as candidate from the political party it belongs to.

What’s difference between the two of the political parties? General speaking…

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

…the Democratic Party focuses on a big government of making much of social welfare, considering weak position in the society, and the Republican Party aims at being a small government of making much of autonomy and independence on the nations for themselves.

《Caucus meeting and preliminary election》

The way of deciding the Presidential candidate from the Democratic Party and the Republican one is various in each of states. The schedule on deciding the number of delegates is varied. The number of delegates is 4765 on the Democratic Party.

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《Caucus meeting and preliminary election》

2472 is on the Republican Party. If winning the majority of them, being able to be the candidate of the President.

Delegates are assigned to each of states, which candidate does get how many delegates? The way of deciding are two. The caucus meeting and the preliminary election.

Both of the political parties hold the caucus meeting in summertime, and appoint each of candidates then, and delegates are present at the caucus meeting from each of states, and voted who to appoint. Delegates who are…

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《Caucus meeting and preliminary election》

I’m sorry, I made a mistake in the last response. Though I expressed both of the political parties hold the caucus meeting in summertime, it’s not the caucus meeting but the political convention.

Delegates who are present at the political convention vote the one who they appoint. Delegates who attend the political convention are chosen at the caucus meeting or at the preliminary election.

The members of the political party gather from each state at the gymnasium in elementary school in local area

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《Caucus meeting and preliminary election》

The members of the political party gather at the gymnasium in elementary school or a meeting place from each of states and votes delegates which candidates to support, compiling the result from each place with the whole state, deciding the number of delegates who support which of the candidates. The caucus meeting is done like that.

On the other hand, in the preliminary election the members of the political party vow as if it were the Presidential election.

There is the state of assigned number…

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I’m afraid I’m tired and made a mistake in my responses, so some part of this English of mine doesn’t make a sense, so I’m sorry for it.

【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《Caucus meeting and preliminary election》

There is the state of assigned number on delegates decides, according to the number of votes, and there is other state where the candidate got the majority of the vote and won the whole number of delegates in the state.

As to the Democratic Party, the number of delegates is decided, according to the number of votes. The way is unified.

Besides, in the…

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《Caucus meeting and preliminary election》

Furthermore, in the preliminary election of choosing the candidate from the Republican Party, even if it’s not the member in the Republican Party, it can vote. There is the state like that, so it’s of great variety.

In the process of getting delegates at the caucus meeting or at the preliminary election, it turns out which candidate is influential. Supports gather to the influential candidate, so the influential candidate becomes advantageous more and more.

So the reserve army of candidates …

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《Caucus meeting and preliminary election》

So the reserve army of candidates rush to state which carries out the caucus meeting and preliminary election earlier than any other states and appeal for the support, and it’s broadcast in the whole America through TV, so it’s a good opportunity for the earlier state to appeal the existence of their own to the whole America.

There are states of setting a schedule of choosing candidates earlier than any other state, and attracting attention of mass media from the whole America. Iowa and New…

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《Caucus meeting and preliminary election》

Iowa and New Hampshire are like that, for Iowa holds the Caucus meeting earlier than any other state in America, and New Hampshire carries out the preliminary election earlier than any other ones in America.

As each of candidates tries to build up momentum with the victory there, they ride into there earlier and develop the election campaign earlier, and its situation is broadcast greatly.

Both of Iowa and New Hampshire are so plain that almost none of people speak of those state everyday life.

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But both of them steal show of the whole America in the Presidential election, for it’s useful for the community revitalization, so both of the states make it rule to carry out either the Caucus meeting or the preliminary election earlier than any other state in America.

《Choosing the vice President is also important》

Both of the Democratic and Republican Party hold the Caucus party in the summer of the voting day in the Presidential election, and nominate the candidate from the political party formally then, but as the number of total…

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メイちゃん、元気でやってるかな？😊

【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《Choosing the vice President is also important》

…but as they know the number of the total vote on the representatives with the Caucus meeting or the preliminary election, the vote for nomination is just a showtime. Members of the party and representatives gather from the whole nation on the day, and it’s like a carnival then, and its situation is live broadcast and candidates of the President and the vice President make a speech, and they will be paid attention.

The one who is nominated as the candidate of the …

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《Choosing the vice President is important as well》

The one who is nominated as the candidate of the President from the political party announces the vice President. Who is the vice President? All of the people pay attention to it.

At the Caucus meeting on the Democratic Party in 2008, Obama developed the serious battle against Hillary Clinton, and some people thought Obama may have chosen Hillary as the vice President, but Joseph Biden who was the veteran Senate was chosen from the Democratic Party.

The Vice President is the one who…

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《Choosing the vice President is also important》

The vice President is always the one who compensates the weakness on the President.
As to the candidate of Obama, his sales point is his youth, but at the same time, he would be criticized he didn’t have enough experience, so he chose Biden who was the veteran white Senate.

As to the vice President compensates the weakness on the President, it was same on the Republican Party, for the candidate of McCain chose Sarah Palin who was the governor in Alaska. McCain was so old that it was…

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《Choosing the vice President is also important》

McCain was so old that it was his weakness as the candidate of the President. Moreover, though he was the candidate from the Republican Party, he wasn’t opposed to abortion and the same-sex marriage. He was so liberal that lots of other members of the Republican Party criticized him, he chose Palin who a young woman and a conservative hardliner.

But she didn’t have her passport which was enable her to go abroad until 2007 so as to visit Kuwait in the soldiers who was dispatched from Alaska.

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In short, she had never been overseas until then. Can the vice President who didn’t have enough experience overseas fit for the job? She got blasted for not having enough experience.

《It starts from making them register as eligible voters》

Eligible voters are on the list of the electoral roll automatically at the age of 18 in Japan and the guidance is sent to them immediate before the election day.

On the other hand, the eligible voters in America are also over the age of 18, without registering as the eligible voter beforehand, they…

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

…they can’t get the right to vote. Without claiming themselves, they can’t get the right, they’ve adopted the principle, but it used to be made use of in a wrong way in the past.

At the time of discrimination against black people was terrible in America, obstructing the black people to register as eligible voters, or making a condition without being able to read or write, being unable to register as eligible voters, excluding the black people who couldn’t read and write. The way used to be adopted.

《The election choosing those in the…》

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【The system of the Presidential election in America】

《The election of choosing those in the Presidential election》

It is said the nation chooses the President direct in America, actually adopting the system of the indirect election of choosing those in the Presidential election.

The candidate registers every state in the Presidential election, reporting with the signature of the number of supporters which is fixed every state, so the ones who stand for the Presidential election from all the fifty states in the whole America are candidates from the Democratic and Republican Parties alone.

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