In the American presidential system, whoever wins the most popular votes in a state usually gets all the electoral votes of that state.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

Voters in Washington State approved a system like this in two thousand four.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

There was no state-to-state highway system.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Germany's state-regulated, public universal health care system dates back to the late 1800s.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"I am therefore assigning priority to reforming and reorganizing our prison system, reviewing procedures for investigating alleged crimes by the state for special appeals and for the cases of detention without trial for citizens."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

"The draft resolution is nothing more than a document of political conspiracy of hostile forces, to put the veil of a unanimous message of the international community on the U.S.-led human rights campaign against the DPRK in a bid to deny and obliterate the state and social system of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.20