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| | | You need to understand Electoral College or electoral votes for this 2016 Major Presidential Election! The United States Electoral College is the institution that elects the President and Vice President of the United States every four years. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. The electors were selected to represent the states of the U.S.; they formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president. The citizens of the United States do not directly elect the president or the vice president. The political parties often choose Electors (can be state elected officials, state party leaders, or people in the state who have a personal or political affiliation with their party's Presidential candidate) before the election. The number of electors in each state (50 States plus Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia)) is equal to the number of members of Congress to which the state is entitled. In other words, your state’s entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators.
Check out the number of electoral votes for each state from this list: http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/allocation.html. California has the largest 55 electoral votes due to the most populous state with about 39 million people in 2015. On Election Day, the voters in each state select their state's Electors by casting their ballots for President. Their popular votes would determine number of electoral votes for their states. The six states with the most electors are California (55), Texas (38), New York (29), Florida (29), Illinois (20) and Pennsylvania (20). The seven smallest states by population—Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming—have three electors each. The states that are believed to impact the outcome of this 2016 election are North Carolina, Ohio, Wisconsin, Virginia, Colorado, Arizona, Georgia, and New Hampshire, Indiana. (http://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-voting-laws-2016-fall-elections.html).
Swing state is a state in which no single candidate or party has overwhelming support in securing that state's electoral college votes. The POLITICO Battleground States polling average is a calculation of the most recent public polling in 11 swing states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. 11-state weighted average: Clinton: 44.7%; Trump: 40.6% (dated 9/12/16) (http://www.politico.com/2016-election/swing-states) The average electoral vote represents 436,000 people, but that number rises and falls per state depending on that state’s population over 18 years of age. The states with the fewest people per electoral vote, and therefore the highest “vote power,” are Wyoming, Vermont, and North Dakota in 2012 election. In Wyoming, there are 143,000 people for each of its three electoral votes. The states with the weakest votes are New York, Florida, and California. These states each have around 500,000 people for each electoral vote. In other words, one Wyoming voter has roughly the same vote power as four New York voters...Although a vote in Washington, D.C. is the third most powerful, for example, the probability it will change the outcome of the election is incredibly low. (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2012/11/presidential_election_a_map_showing_the_vote_power_of_all_50_states.html).
In 2000 election, the Electoral College system has resulted in the election of a candidate who did not receive the most popular votes in the election. “Though Gore held a slim popular vote victory of 543,895 (0.5%), Bush won the Electoral College 271 to 266, with one Gore Elector abstaining….Florida became the key state as the election drew to a close. Consisting of nearly 6 million voters, Florida was officially won by a margin of 537 electoral votes, after a process of recounting the votes and a Supreme Court ruling…Voters complained about confusing ballots and many Florida voters believed that they accidentally voted for Pat Buchanan, a conservative running on the Reform ticket, when they meant to vote for Al Gore.” (http://archive.fairvote.org/e_college/controversial.htm#2000).
During the 2000 election, the pastor of Royal Family church, Alice Chan and I and our intercessory team prayed for George W. Bush to win and we knew Al Gore will not win at the time when both Al Gore and George W. Bush were running and Bush did not meet the largest popular votes. I saw a vision: the ballots for Al Gore fell from the cliff during our prayer meeting until 2:00 am early morning. God answered us including all churches/intercessors who prayed for Bush to make George W. Bush our 43rd U.S. President by 5-4 votes in Supreme Court after the conflict. Another vision I saw on the day of the re-election of George W. George in 2004 is that John Kerry took off his shirt! The revelation of this prophetic vision came to me later that it means the “nakedness” of John Kerry. Nakedness in spiritual meaning is being poor, shameful, and defeated. I believe it was truly a miracle for the double victories of George W. Bush.
Another word of wisdom is that if you seek our miraculous God, you do not need to seek miracles because miracles are a part and the power of God; it is the manifestation of God. The greatest miracle Jesus performed on earth is raising the death (i.e. Lazarus in John 11; Acts 4:10) and his apostles followed (Acts 20:7-12). For example, God divided the red sea and formed dry land and Jesus turned water to wine (John 2). Amazing! My God deserves all glory! God is able to perform miracles in the coming election as you can see how the Florida’s voters made mistakes. This is not at all a mistake to me but God’s will to be fulfilled through prayers.
A Word of Wisdom: If the voters vote for Hillary (popular votes as an example) and a fewer people vote for Trump and others (like Florida voters voted for Pat Buchanan by mistake) do not vote for either Trump or Hillary, it will end up more than a half of electoral votes (269) or 270 go to Hillary. A kingdom divides itself will be destroyed per the Bible. We all conservatives must be in unity! Hillary has final victory because when you do not go to vote for Trump, you actually vote for Hillary indirectly. We must pray and tell everyone in America to register to vote for Trump, and then vote! Do not be negligent or make mistake like 2008! Wisdom and Time to Release Prophecies of God: We must need to pray for wisdom to release prophecies of God: “When, who, how, and where do we release them?” And sometimes we do not need to release it but only to pray and keep that prophecy secretly or to only a few people who understand until after fulfillment. If I tell people “Trump is chosen” by God or it is God’s will, it can create misunderstanding to people who do not think they need to go to vote or take actions anymore since God has determined the winner before voting.
What some people do not know another truth is that if the people repent, God also may change the original plan of judgment (original prophecy) and forgives the people and not destroy their city as in the case of Nineveh city in the book of Jonah 3:10-12. That is why we ask for God’s mercy for America and for American people to repent! An Example: I learned a lesson from a similar experience more than ten years ago; I released God’s prophecy about our victory to my hired person. This hireling then became lazy and took it lightly. I was so right about the whole process from the beginning to the end of what I told my hireling because God spoke to me different things about the case before they came to pass. That hireling did not like to listen to God’s instructions from me and we ended up lost the case because of the misunderstanding and carelessness of my hireling! I suffered losses because of the sins of this hireling. I forgave him.
Interestingly, God’s grace took over and turned evil for the good after all; we actually won the kingdom of God to bless many other cases (known and unknown).
Disasters & Godly Sorrow Lead to Repentance:
God allows disasters like Hurricane Katrina to call a state to change its politic stand: “Louisiana has been a Democratic state for decades, due to New Orleans and the state's large African-American population. Regardless, most of its statewide Democratic officeholders, and its white Democratic officeholders outside New Orleans and Baton Rouge, have been quite conservative by national Democratic Party standards. However, in the 1990s and 2000s, Democratic power in Louisiana waned, with Hurricane Katrina dealing a heavy blow to Democratic power. The 2010 election dealt the final blow to Democrats, turning over its final control in the state to Republicans.” (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Louisiana).
I will share with you a prophetic revelation from a Hebrew radio host about the recent flood in Louisiana damaging about 150,000 homes since August 12. In conclusion, our concern is what is of God and His Kingdom.
So Hear the Heavenly Voice! Hebrews 12:25-27, 29“25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain…29 For our God is a consuming fire.”
By Prophetess Esther Ng
Founder of Royal Crown of Life Ministries |
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