Democracies are
free nations that have elections. Electoral systems vary from democracy to democracy, but the
peoples' votes are almost always the key factor in determining the elections' winners. There is
an Electoral College in the United States, however. Because of the antiquated Electoral College,
the winner of American presidential elections do not always receive more votes than the other
candidates. For example, the winners of both the 2000 and 2016 presidential elections received
far fewer popular votes than their opponents. The vast majority of other democracies outside the
U.S. have a parliamentary system, and political party leaders run their governments.
Dictatorships are different from democracies because they do not have free elections.
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