#USelection: What is the electoral college?
Rather than award the presidency to the person with the most votes, the United States runs on the more complicated electoral college system.
Each state is apportioned a certain number of electoral college votes based on its population. California has the most with 55. Wyoming, the Dakotas, Montana, Alaska and Vermont have three each. If you win the state, you win all of their electoral college votes. And the candidate to accumulate 270 electoral college votes wins the presidency. Needlessly complicated, right?
The system allows for swing states to have an outsized influence in the election. If a state is considered a given for either candidate, neither candidate will campaign there. But if a state is up for grabs, they will be there constantly.
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