Question about Electoral College

[fisherguy]

I understand the part about the canidate who wins each state getting the electoral college votes of that state, but who are the members of the electoral college and how do they get that position? Also, apparently they do not legally have to vote for the canidate who won that state. Do you think any of them would actually vote for the other canidate?

[andymansavage]

Electrical college is hard, but if you study alot, you should be able to graduate in six to eight months.

[fisherguy]

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Electrical college is hard, but if you study alot, you should be able to graduate in six to eight months.

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lol for a minute i thought i had actually typed that in my post.

[ParrotHead]

Electorial College 101

Ok here’s the footnotes version:

Every state has 2 electors for every US Senator plus the number of US Representatives. Thus, this determines how many votes a candidate would receive if they won that states majority vote.

The individual’s selected are from lists submitted by the political parties to the states chief election official.

The candidate that receives the majority of electorial votes is declared the winner.

[Colorado Bob]

The electoral voters are selected at the state convention. The voter from our congressional district is from Durango----I know her. Kind of cool. Here in Colorado, we selected a person from each congressional district at teh state convention. That way, Denver doesn't hog all the voters. The western slope picked one from the western slope.

Interesting fact is that the voter in the electoral college is NOT BOUND to vote for the president. In other words---if Bush wins the vote in Colorado---the electoral voters could STILL vote for whoever. Doesn't happen very often but it HAS.