A group of 538 electors are the only people who actually cast their ballot for President due to the Electoral College.

An electoral college is a system in which a body of electors selects a candidate for a particular office. The United States uses it to choose heads of state, but an electoral college is not uniquely ...

And in the US, the president isn't necessarily decided by the popular vote. Rather something called the electoral college, *** body consisting of 538 electors. The same number as the members of ...

The byzantine Electoral College system has, five separate times since America began, delivered the White House to a candidate who lost the popular vote. The Founding Fathers established the Electoral ...