Do the voters elect electors not the presidential candidates
Voters directly elect members of the Senate and members of the House of Representatives
In a parliamentary system voters elect the members of parliament but they do not elect the leader/prime minister. The members of parliament elect the leader.
The 17th Amendment gave voters the right to elect senators
Elections are held every four years.
The electors or Electoral College.
They are called Electors
Representatives.
Senate
The name of the form of government in which voters elect officials to run the state is representative democracy.
The Electoral College voters decide the President-Elect because their votes are the ones that count.Whoever wins the Electoral Vote in any US Presidential Election will win.
The US is a Constitutional Republic. It differs from a "pure" democracy in that voters do not vote on every issue, but elect people to represent them.