THE VOTING PROCESS
Electoral Vote vs Popular Vote
Electoral votes:
Under Article II of the Constitution, each state is allotted a number of electoral votes equal to its number of seats in Congress. Per State, each will appoint per law, electors which will be equal to not only the number of senators but also the total member said state has a member in the House of Representatives.
States with a low population, such as Montana, Wyoming, and Alaska get three electoral votes. California gets the most, with 55 electoral votes, Texas gets 38, and Florida and New York each get 29.
The amount of votes each state gets depends on the voting membership of each state that is in Congress; congresspeople depend on how high/low the population is, giving Indiana 9 congressional votes. Adding on two for Senate gives Indiana 11 electoral votes.
In total, there are 538 electoral votes. To become president, the nominee needs 270, which is more than half of the 538 electoral votes.
Popular Votes:
The 2020 election in regards to popular vote has been currently tallied as of November 11, 2020, with Joe Biden: 77,083,679 vs Donald Trump: 72,159,215. Biden has 4,924,464 more votes than Trump, giving Biden the popular vote as well as the electoral vote.
So very basically; The amount of electoral votes a state gets depends on how large that state’s population is, plus their senators. The states use their electoral votes to vote for whoever won the popular vote in their state. The popular vote is determined by the legitimate number of votes that candidate got from the citizens. Whoever wins in the electoral college becomes president.