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.
Except you're voting not for the president, but for electors who will elect him, the members of the infamous electoral college.
Under the constitution, this year on 8 November Americans chose electors, who are usually party officials, to represent their states in the electoral college.
It merely appointed three electors who voted for Hayes.
There are 538 electors, who cast separate votes for president and vice president.
The 115 electors, who are also the candidates, are much more alike than different.
They choose a slate of electors who pledge to vote for a certain presidential ticket.
French electors, who go to the polls again on 22 April and 6 May, are the most skittish in Europe.
This may help explain why some of the 14,000 electors who deserted Labour this week did so.
But the Florida Legislature is expected to step in to appoint presidential electors who support Gov. George W. Bush.
Under some state laws, electors who violate a pledge to vote for a particular candidate may be fined.
