The US Presidential Election

1)    Election Day is always the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November

2)    Americans don´t vote directly for the President à they vote for electors

• 538 electors total 
• 270 electors are needed to become President
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3)   Electoral College

• The 538 electoral votes are divided among the states
• Each state gets at least 3 votes and the rest of the votes is split up roughly in relation to the population of the states
• On Election Day the voters tell their state what candidate should get the state’s electoral votes

4)    Complications

• Americans who live abroad send a letter to the state where they last had resided in before they moves
• Americans in the territories don’t have the right to vote
• Since 1964 citizens of D.C. are allowed to vote for their President (4 electoral votes)