But assuming that they're all "faithful" Electors, then, depending on which presidential candidate wins their respective state, the corresponding group of Electors will cast all their Electoral votes for the winning candidate, on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December (No kiddin. That's how they do it. This year, that's December 19).
The chief executive is chosen by a small group of electors approved by Beijing.
The effective constituency is the group of electors that can be identified as having voted for a given candidate.
In every state, every party nominates its own group of Electors, i.e. the Republican party nominates a group of Electors, the democratic party nominates a group of Electors, the Green party nominates a group of Electors, and the Libertarian party nominates a group of Electors..
Today, the aura of that group of electors has changed, but that layer still exists, and together these electors are called the "ELECTORAL COLLEGE".
If a political party fails to nominate its group of Electors by a certain deadline (for example, the Green party didn't meet the deadline in Arizona this year), then, that state cannot vote for that candidate!
To put it very bluntly, the group of electors consists of 117 old men who were chosen by two other old men, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, and these old men will elect yet another old man, all clerics.
This means that a group of Electors could technically decide to go rogue if they wanted, and cast their votes for another candidate than the one chosen by their people.
The best outcome, of course, would be for some constitutional Hail Mary pass to prevent Trump from becoming president: a group of electors who decide that he is just too much of a risk; or some kind of emergency appeal to the Supreme Court, to stay the election because its integrity and validity was hijacked by the Russians.
