The process of the “Electoral College” can be understood in details by considering what it
is, how it functions, and how the electors are selected. It is being a group of people that is
formed by each state to formally appoint the US. president and his deputy. “Since the year
1964, there have been 538 total electors, each with one vote in every presidential election”
(Greer, 0:51). 538 electors create this college who isolates votes that determine the
Vice-President and President of United States. The mystery of the number 538 is just a
mathematical formula of the entirety of the nation’s 435 representatives added to 100
senators and 3 electors agreed to the District of Columbia. In our daily reality, we as
voters, pay a visit to the polls on a Tuesday and together we cherry-pick which candidate
will obtain the individual state’s electors. Presidency is essentially won by the candidate
who obtains 270 electoral votes.
If the candidate won in a certain state, the would get all the electoral votes: therefore, some
presidential candidates wants to “win states like Texas, Florida, and New York which adds
up to 96 electoral votes” (Greer, 1:51). Even if North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana,
Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, Connecticut, and New Hampshire won, they would
only gain 31 electoral votes.
As of today, of the year 2000, someone can win the popular votes but fail to gain up to 270
electoral votes can lose compare to the other candidate that has less popular votes and
more electoral votes. Because of how electoral votes works, some people think this is
