Can someone explain how exactly the electoral college works?
The voters of each state vote for electors to vote for President and Vice-President, though most ballots just show the candidates’ names instead of the electors’. The electors in most states must vote for whichever candidate receives a majority of that state’s popular vote. The electors then vote for President and Vice-President. Each state is allocated a number of electors equal to their amount of Congressmen plus their amount of Senators, so the least amount of electors a state can have is 3. Washington, DC also has three, despite having no Senators and one nonvoting Congressman. States decide how to allocate their electors, so theoretically a state’s legislature could appoint its electors. Colorado did this in 1876 because it didn’t have enough time to hold elections, and South Carolina did this for every election up to the Civil War. In 2000, there was fear that Florida’s legislature would appoint its electors if the Supreme Court case (Gore v. Bush) wasn’t going to be settled befo
