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How does the Electoral College work?
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The Electoral College is a system of indirect voting used to determine the President and the Vice President of the United States. It is composed of 538 electors, which are divided among the 50 states, Washington D.C., and the five U.S. territories. Each state gets the same number of electors as it has Representatives and Senators in Congress. The electors of each state then cast their votes to decide the President and Vice President of the United States. Every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, citizens go to the polls to vote for their preferred candidate. The candidates with the most votes in their respective states become the electors of their state, who then cast their votes for president in an electoral vote. The candidate who gets the majority of the electoral votes (at least 270) is elected as the President of the United States.