expling what an elector is?

Answer 1

Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, slightly modified by the 12th Amendment, describes the procedure for electing the President. The President is elected by a vote of the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a group of people called Electors. There are 535 Electors in the Electoral College. They're the people who elect the President directly.

Each state gets an Elector for each of its two Senators, plus an Elector for each of its Representatives in Congress. If a state has 18 Representatives, then it will have 20 Electors, each of whom will cast an Electoral Vote for President.

There are 535 Electors in the Electoral College because there are 100 Senators and 435 Representatives in Congress.

When a political party nominates a candidate for President, the party in each state also selects a "slate" of potential Electors. These potential Electors are always loyal members of the party, pledged to vote for the party's candidate.

The November presidential election is really a contest between rival slates of Electors. If a Republican wins the November election in a state with twenty Electoral Votes, then that state's Republican slate of twenty potential Electors become members of the Electoral College, and in December, all twenty will cast Electoral Votes for the Republican candidate for President.

That's how we elect Presidents. It's an indirect process; 268 Electoral Votes are needed -- one more than half. The Electoral College has been criticized for more than two hundred years, but it's still what we have.

Answer 2

An elector is one who actually votes for the president and vice president. By the constitution, the citizens, including you and me, vote for a slate of electors who can (and occassionally do) vote for whomever they please.