These electors will gather in Raleigh Dec. 18 to cast North Carolina s electoral votes for United States president. Based on Tuesday s North Carolina victory for George Bush, a GOP slate of 12 men and two women will be certified as its electors. At this point in time, Al Gore appears to have won the national popular vote and George W. Bush is ahead in Florida, which would give him the necessary 270 electoral votes. There are 538 electoral votes. Each state has at least two, just as in the Senate.
States also get a vote for each congressional district and the District of Columbia has three.
The electors are the ones who gather in the state capitals to cast the votes. Not in North Carolina. If not, the vote is voided and another elector is chosen by the law-abiding electors. The law was passed after a 1968 elector in North Carolina voted for George Wallace instead of Richard Nixon. I ve pledged to vote for the candidate they chose and I intend to do that.