Who are the Electoral College?
By BBC News Online’s Kevin Anderson in Washington This could be the first election since 1888 in which the next president wins the vote in the Electoral College but does not receive the majority of the popular vote. It is possible that Texas Governor and Republican candidate George W Bush could win by a thin margin in the Electoral College but lose the popular vote to Democrat Vice President Al Gore by more than 200,000 votes. But who are these members of the Electoral College? Becoming an elector In Massachusetts, the state’s electors are no great mystery. The electors from the various parties and for various write-in candidates are listed on the state’s website. If there is one thing that electors share in common, they are all party activists. David Tuttle is a Republican member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and is also an elector for his party this year. The process for choosing electors varies from state to state, Mr Tuttle said, but in Massachusetts, the parties’ s
