Today is the US Presidential Election 2016.
Americans will vote today to choose a new president.
The main contenders are Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump. Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Darrell Castle, and Evan McMullin are also running for president.
The election of President and Vice President of the United States is, technically, an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty states or Washington, D.C. cast ballots for members of the U.S. Electoral College, known as electors.
These electors then in turn cast direct votes, known as electoral votes, in their respective state capitals for President and Vice President. Each of the states casts as many electoral votes as the total number of Senators and House Representatives in Congress, while Washington, D.C. is represented by the same number of votes as the lowest-represented state, currently three.
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