The Upshot's
elections model suggests that Hillary Clinton is favored to win the presidency, based on the latest state and national polls.
Not exact matches
Although there are problems with predicting the Liberal Democrat vote the
model suggests that they will be substantially down on their 2010 vote but will perhaps not face the routing they did at the European Parliament
elections.
For a variety of reasons (including the impact of high levels of undecided voters in a specific poll), the actual result of an
election contest may vary from the figures
suggested by an opinion poll, even if the poll is carried out relatively close to
election day, or on
election day itself as in the case of exit polls, but the likelihood of such variation is not something that can be factored into this
model.
Since there are, however, some democratic (or meritocratic, as
suggested by @gerrit) elements to the governance of this mortal realm -
election of moderators, and so on - one
model to which SE could be said to bear a slight resemblance is the Democracy / Theocracy amalgam of Iran (with, admittedly, many differences, not least of which is that Wikipedia does not appear to be contemplating an invasion of SE to prevent us from getting nukes).
A lesson that revises: FPTP Advantages / disadvantages of FPTP Proportional and non-proportional rep Who can and can not vote in local / general
elections Complete with a practice 8 mark answer with
model answers and
suggested criteria and writing frames
If an
election model is used it was
suggested that compulsory voting aligned with the Australian electoral roll should take place.