2. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof

may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators

and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress;

but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust

or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.

[The electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by ballot

for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the

same State with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the

persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each; which list they

shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of government of