The Electoral College: Not a place but a process to elect the President

 

 

 

The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.

The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress.

The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Missouri's entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators. So the state of  Missouri is worth 10 "votes" in the electoral college. This video from the 2008 election explains the process much better:

 

 

 

 

 

Here is map of all of the states: