evidence: - Selection of electors - Meeting of electors who cast votes for the president and vice president - Counting of the electors’ votes by Congress [...] Each state gets as many electors as it has members of Congress (House and Senate). Including Washington, D.C.’s three electors, there are currently 538 electors in all. Find out how many electoral votes each state gets. Each state’s political parties choose their own slate of potential electors. Who is chosen to be an elector, how, and when varies by state. Learn more about how electors are chosen.