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Article II Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States of America states the following:

“The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct , a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chose by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chose the President. But in choosing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall choose from them by Ballot the Vice President.”

So each state’s legislature decides how to go about appointing “Electors”.  The number of “Electors” is equal to that states total number of Representatives (Congressmen) plus their two Senators. For an example, KY has 6 representatives and 2 senators so we would have 8 “Electors”. Only 8 people from KY would vote on the President and vice President.  At no point in the Constitution or Amendments does it allow for the selection of the President by a popular vote of all US Citizens. In each state you get to vote for your state legislature and then they decide how to pick Electors who will then have the responsibility to vote for the president. Your state could decide to allow its citizens to vote for Electors or it could do it by lottery if it wanted but they would be the only ones voting for the president. The “popular vote” of the people has no meaning and no Constitutional founding. If your state wanted to hold a vote so that your Electors could get an idea of how its citizens felt then they could but the Electors have no obligation to listen to it.