Civic · 6 pages · 12 min
The electoral college adds separate state contests for electors, not one national pile of ballots.
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Under the electoral college, each state runs a contest to choose electors, and those electors later cast the votes that fill the presidency. The national result is a sum of state results, not one stack of every citizen ballot in the country. The opening covers each state chooses its electors, blocs reward a state win, and the national sum is not the rule.
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