text: ",The founding fathers established this process in the constitution as compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by popular demand. The Electoral college process consits of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote President and Vice President, and the counting of electoral votes by Congress. The Electoral college consits of 538 electors. A majority of electoral votes is required to elect the President. The passage also states that under the 23rd Amendment of the constitution, the district of columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the electoral college. for this reason, in the following discussion, the word "state" also refers to the District of Columbia,