Americans do not vote directly for their president.
Rather, the president and vice-president of the United States are elected through a system called the electoral college.
Here are five quick answers about how that system works.
What exactly is the electoral college?
The word college here refers to a group of people. That group is made up of 538 people who are formal electors.
Each elector represents one vote in the electoral college.
That means a majority of…