this time. It is the electoral college (membership based on how many representatives plus the two senators from each state) that votes for the president, supposedly based on what each state has decided and they are to vote based on apportionment of who the voters of their states have said is to receive the votes, i.e., 51% are to vote for one candidate while 49% are to vote for the other if that's how the state as a whole voted. Or it could be apportioned three ways or however many candidates get a substantial amount of votes (hearkens back to Clinton, Bush and Perot). But it is NOT the people who vote the president in. The framers of our Constitution at that time had no clue that we would come so far in communication abilities and otherwise that a popular vote could actually become a reality. And it actually HAS happened that a president who had less votes in the popular vote won over the one that had more because some members of the electoral college did not vote the way that they pledged they would do. They instead went off on their own and voted for the candidate that they personally wanted in office, and the vote went to Harrison. Although the electoral college members pledge that they will vote according to their own separate states' wishes, they are not required to do so. They can vote for whomever they please. So once again, as I've stated previously, the