The electoral college

Only 40% of Americans have as much as a bachelor's degree.  The electoral college is a fairly opaque topic for most Americans. When we vote for president in the general election, we are actually only choosing electors who will officially vote to determine who wins the presidential election. The number of electoral college votes a state has is determined by the number of congressional districts in the state plus the number of US Senators in the state which is always 2 for every state. Let's take Texas as an example. Texas has 38 congressional districts. Therefore, Texas has 40 electoral college votes since it has 2 US Senators and 38 congressional districts. The Republican Party chairperson in Texas chose the 40 most loyal Republicans in the state of Texas that they knew of to their slate or group or set of electors. The Democratic Party chairperson in Texas chose the 40 most loyal Democrats in the state of Texas. How do we know which slate or group of electors is real and which is fake? The slate of electors chosen by the political party whose nominee won the popular vote in the state is the real slate or set of electors. Since Donald Trump won the popular vote in the state of Texas in the 2024 presidential election and since he was the Republican Party's nominee for president, then the real slate or group of electors would for the state of Texas would be the Republican Party's slate of electors. 

On the second Tuesday after the first Wednesday in December in presidential election years in the United States, the legitimate slates of electors all meet at their respective state Capitols and they cast a vote for president. In some states, these electors are allowed to vote their conscience; in other states, the electors are required to vote for their party's nominee for president. The vote of the electors in each state is recorded and it is certified by the state and then it is sealed. Then this state certified and sealed record of the votes of the real electors is sent to the president of the Senate who is the Vice President of the United States at the Capitol in Washington D.C. on January 6th of the year following the presidential election year. Then all of these state certified and sealed records of the votes of the legitimate electors are collected, counted, and certified. The Vice President, who again is the president of the Senate, has a ceremonial role in which they count the electoral college votes. The states will have already investigated and found to be false the wild conspiracy theories, legal challenges will have already reached a verdict, and recounts will have already been performed. There is, therefore, no valid reason to object to counting the electoral college votes of any state. The records of the votes of the electors from each state are arranged in alphabetical order and considered. 

Since 2021, The Electoral Count Reform Act was passed and it changed the requirements for a written objection to counting the electoral college votes of a state from one member of each chamber objecting to counting the electoral college votes of a state to twenty percent of the members of each chamber objecting to counting the electoral college votes of the state under consideration.  However, in January of 2021, the requirement in the law for a written objection to counting the electoral college votes was one member of each chamber voting to object to counting the electoral college votes of the state under consideration. If this requirement is not met meaning that there is not at least one member of each chamber of Congress who is voting to object to counting the electoral college votes of the state under consideration, then the objection is only an oral objection. Oral objections are essentially ignored. However, if there is a written objection to counting the electoral college votes of the state under consideration, then the members of each chamber are separated, and each chamber two hours debating whether or not to count the electoral college of the state under consideration. Then we move on to the next state. 

Now, there are 435 congressional districts in the United States and there are 100 US Senators. This total gives us 535 electoral college votes. Then we add 3 electoral college votes for Washington D.C. . This gives us a total of 538 electoral college votes. Whoever wins a majority of these electoral college votes wins the presidential election.