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The Electoral College elects the president. Summarize your findings,keeping it as brief as possible, about how the electoral college works.

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The election for President is really 51 individual elections, one for each state plus DC. The USA is a republic, not a democracy. Each state gets a specific number of electoral votes total to the number of Reps and Senators that state has. All but 2 states have a winner-take-all system.

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