Washington (AFP) - When the richest haul in the US presidential primary race arrives on "Super Tuesday," millions of Americans will cast their votes -- and many of them will count for nothing. In the primary system it is the number of allocated delegates that matters more than the popular vote count. The Republican and Democratic nominating contests that play out across the United States every four years serve to elect delegates to the national conventions, where they formally select their party's presidential nominee. Most of the 15 states holding primaries on "Super Tuesday" award them on a ...
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