The Process The Electoral College isn’t a place It’s the process by which a group of people called electors cast votes for the US president and vice president The highest law in the United States the Constitution created this process 4
MAKE THE GRADE Some Founding Fathers wanted to let the voters choose their president and others wanted to let Congress vote The Electoral College was a compromise 5
By the Numbers Congress is made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives Each state is allotted a number of electors equal to its number of House representatives and senators The Electoral College is made up of 538 electors Each elector equals one electoral vote 6
JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS MAKE THE GRADE Washington DC isn’t a state but it has three electoral votes according to the Twenty-Third Amendment to the US Constitution 7
