There is an Electoral College process which have some important elements, such as the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors who will vote for President and Vice President, as well as it must count the electoral votes by Congress.
This Electoral College is formed by 538 electors but 217 electoral votes are needed to elect the President.
The Explorers were were wrong because the Natives were civilized in their own way, they did not need to convert to a European Ideology in order to be considered "Civilized"
