Presidential Election Simulation. How Does the Electoral College Work? As most Americans learned in school and re-learned during the 2000 election, Americans do not directly elect their presidents and vice presidents.
They actually elect "electors," who make up the Electoral College and cast the critical electoral votes for the nation's top two jobs. The following is an Electoral College FAQ, courtesy of the Federal Elections Commission. How are electors chosen? The political parties (or independent candidates) in each state submit to the state's chief election official a list of individuals pledged to their candidate for president and equal in number to the state's electoral vote. Pres. Election Basics. This page was made on Monday 5th November 2012Last updated at 11:16 Every four years people in the US vote for who they want to be their president.
The president makes decisions about how the US is run and how it will work with other countries. He is in charge of the world's biggest superpower. Some people say that the American president is the most powerful person on Earth. First, both of the main political parties - Republicans and Democrats - have to pick one candidate each who they want to run for president.