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Here we are looking at our electoral college system.
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Now in our united states, the president and the vice president are not elected directly by our voters.
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Instead, they are elected by electors through a process known as the electoral college.
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Each state is going to have a certain number of electors, which is equal to the number of senators and representatives in congress.
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We know that there is going to be a total of 538 electoral votes, with each state having a minimum of three.
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The district of columbia also has three electoral votes.
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Then we are going to see that most of our states are going to use a winner -takes -all system, where the candidate who wins the most majority of our popular vote is going to receive all of the state's electoral votes.
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For example, if a candidate wins 51 % of the vote in a state with 20 electoral votes, they would receive all 20 from that state.
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Then we want to recognize our exceptions.
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Not all states are going to follow this winner -take -all rule...
