To win the presidency, a president required to win a maximum of 270 electoral votes out of 538. The Electoral College method consists of the collection of the electors. The electors in the electoral college chose the United States president and vice president with the counting of the votes by Congress.
The body of electors formed after every four years to elect the president and vice president is called electoral collage. It consists of 538 electors and a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to win the election. Clause Two, Section One of Article Two, gives the provisions by which each state legislature decides how to choose its electors. Number of electors from a state is equal to the total of states members in the House of Representatives and Senate. There are 435 representatives and 100 senators.
More working-class people had gained the right to vote, and voter participation sharply increased." Twice as many voters cast ballots in the election of 1828 as in 1824, four times as many as in 1820
