WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she has been selected to represent the state of New York as one of 538 members of the US Electoral College who will choose the next president.
Clinton won almost 2.9 million more votes than Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election but lost the election after Trump secured a majority of votes in the Electoral College.
To become US president, a candidate must win 270 votes from Electoral College “electors,” which are allocated to each state based on population.
With the exception of two US states, the candidate that wins the popular vote, even by a single ballot, gets all that state’s electoral votes.
The heavily Democratic state of New York has 29 electors.
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