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EXPLAINER: What’s the Deal with the Electoral College?

Matthew Green

When voters head to the polls on Election Day to select the next president, we’re not actually voting for any one person. Instead, we’re throwing our support behind a group of “electors” who belong to a strange institution called the Electoral College. And it’s this mysterious group of 538 members that directly casts the actual votes to determine who the next president will be.

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