After electors vote in their respective state capitals, their votes are sealed, certified by the state official in charge of election and sent to the vice-President of the United States, acting in his capacity as the President of the US Senate. They will eventually be opened and counted in a joint session of Congress .
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Massachusetts cast its 12 electoral votes for Barack Obama in the 2008 election.
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Hawaii cast 3 electoral votes for Hillary Clinton and 1 electoral vote for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 election.
People vote at Polling Places
Russia has elections in the same way that any other country does. People go to polling stations and cast their votes. Votes are counted, and someone wins.
Of course it matters. Massachusetts has 11 electoral votes. Admittedly, experts and pollsters believe it is very solidly for Obama in 2012, but the people still have to go the polls and cast their votes.
In Nebraska and Maine, whoever gets the most popular votes in each congressional district gets one vote. The other two votes per state go to whoever gets the most popular votes in the whole state. In each of the other 48 states and in D.C., whoever gets the most popular votes gets 100% of the electoral votes.
It doesn't work that way. The electoral votes are the final vote for president. The popular vote will either go for one party deciding who the electoral votes go to.
Your friends mostly. You have to go out and find the votes, and ask people to vote.
Any time you are comparing portions of a whole, and all the portions add up to 100% of the whole, a pie chart is the best way to go.