According to the Missouri Secretary of State's office, a person just hangs around political parties for a while, asks to be made an elector, your name goes on a list and you may or may not get selected out of the hat, so to speak. Once an elector, you fall under title 128 of RSMo. There are a total of 11 electors, scattered across the various political parties, with 2 chosen at large from the State. The Secretary of State chooses them.
The Electors
The electors
By a body of presidential electors
Missouri had approximately 4,425,411 (give or take a handful) eligible voters in the 2008 Presidential election. 2,925,197 of these cast valid ballots. In the Electoral College, it had 11 electors.
There are currently four such states - Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Washington.
By a body of presidential electors
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The Missouri Compromise was done in 1820. The Missouri Compromise decided North and South Power.
The numbers come from how many total representatives are in the state and the two senators.
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Missouri has two senators in the U .S. Senate. All states in the United States select to senators to go to Congress. As of 2014, the two Senators from Missouri are Claire McCaskill and Roy Blunt.
The number of electors for each state in the Electoral College is determined by the sum of its Senators and Representatives in Congress. Each state has two Senators and at least one Representative, with the number of Representatives based on the state's population as calculated in the most recent decennial census. This means that more populous states have more electors, while less populous states have a minimum of three electors regardless of their population. Consequently, the total number of electors across all states is 538, which includes three electors from the District of Columbia.