1. c. On the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in a presidential election year, voters select the electors who cast their electoral votes for the candidate of the voters' choice.
Electors in Madison cast all 10 of the state's electoral votes for Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence, as was widely expected.
proclaiming that he would help "Ohio deliver its electoral votes" for Bush.
Florida boasts 29 electoral votes, for instance, while Mississippi has six.
Congress must also convene in a joint session to count the electoral votes for the president and vice president.
In addition to losing both the popular and electoral votes for president, the Republicans lost nearly every swing state.
They were objecting to accepting Ohio's 20 electoral votes for Mr. Bush, citing voting irregularities in the state.
As a consequence, the result would have been virtually identical if states had not received electoral votes for their senators.
CNN, as of Friday morning, even had Clinton below 270 electoral votes for the first time in a long time.
(That would be 266 electoral votes for Trump). He could win Florida, Ohio, Colorado and Iowa and still lose.
Mr. Linzer appears to have been especially prescient, because he was predicting 332 electoral votes for Mr. Obama as long ago as June.
