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Electoral College (United States)

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The Electoral College consists of the popularly elected representatives (electors) who formally elect the [COLOR=#0000ff]President[/COLOR] and [COLOR=#0000ff]Vice President of the United States[/COLOR]. Since 1964, there have been 538 electors in each presidential election.[COLOR=#0000ff][1][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the Constitution[/COLOR] specifies how many electors each state is entitled to have and that each state's legislature decides how its electors are to be chosen; [COLOR=#0000ff]U.S. territories[/COLOR] are not represented in the Electoral College. The Electoral College is an example of an [COLOR=#0000ff]indirect election[/COLOR].
Rather than directly voting for the President and Vice President, [COLOR=#0000ff]United States[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]citizens[/COLOR] vote for electors. Electors are technically free to vote for anyone eligible to be President, but in practice pledge to vote for specific candidates[COLOR=#0000ff][2][/COLOR] and voters cast ballots for favored presidential and vice presidential candidates by voting for correspondingly pledged electors.[COLOR=#0000ff][3][/COLOR]
The [COLOR=#0000ff]Twelfth Amendment[/COLOR] provides for each elector to cast one vote for President and one vote for Vice President. It also specifies how a President and Vice President are elected.