"Unlike many elections for public office where a person is elected strictly based on the results of a popular vote (i.e., the candidate who earns the most votes in the election wins), in the United States, the election for President of the United States is determined by a process called the Electoral College.

According to the National Archives, the process was established in the United States Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." (https://tasks.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards/tasks/1199 accessed November 22, 2020).

Each state receives an allocation of electoral votes in the process, and this allocation is determined by the number of members in the state's delegation to the US Congress. This number is the sum of the number of US Senators that represent the state (always 2, per the Constitution) and the number of Representatives that represent the state in the US House of Representatives (a number that is directly related to the state's population of qualified citizens as determined by the US Census). Therefore the larger a state's population of qualified citizens, the more electoral votes it has.

Note: the District of Columbia (which is not a state) is granted 3 electoral votes in the process through the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution.

The following table shows the allocation of electoral votes for each state and the District of Columbia for the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections. (http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/allocation.html accessed November 22, 2020).

Total Electoral Votes: 538; Majority Needed to Elect: 270

State	Electoral votes	State	Electoral votes	State	Electoral votes
Alabama	9	Kentucky	8	North Dakota	3
Alaska	3	Louisiana	8	Ohio	18
Arizona	11	Maine	4	Oklahoma	7
Arkansas	6	Maryland	10	Oregon	7
California	55	Massachusetts	11	Pennsylvania	20
Colorado	9	Michigan	16	Rhode Island	4
Connecticut	7	Minnesota	10	South Carolina	9
Delaware	3	Mississippi	6	South Dakota	3
District of Columbia	3	Missouri	10	Tennessee	11
Florida	29	Montana	3	Texas	38
Georgia	16	Nebraska	5	Utah	6
Hawaii	4	Nevada	6	Vermont	3
Idaho	4	New Hampshire	4	Virginia	13
Illinois	20	New Jersey	14	Washington	12
Indiana	11	New Mexico	5	West Virginia	5
Iowa	6	New York	29	Wisconsin	10
Kansas	6	North Carolina	15	Wyoming	3

The Constitution does not specify how individual states must allocate their electoral votes. There are different methodologies. In US election 2020, all states, except Maine and Nebraska (in red), have a winner-take-all (WTA) method where the state looks only at the overall winner of the state-wide popular vote. The WTA awards all electoral votes to the popular vote winner of the state.

Maine and Nebraska both use an alternative method of distributing their electoral votes, called the Congressional District-Popular method (CDP).

Maine has two congressional districts while Nebraska has three congressional districts due to its population. The winner of each congressional district (CD) is awarded one electoral vote, and the winner of the state-wide vote is then awarded the state's remaining two electoral votes.

In US election 2020, a vote for the Presidential candidate is for either Trump or Biden.

1. Design and implement Java classes to represent the following:

1. Candidate: each object of which represents one candidate, consisting of a name, and the number of electoral and popular votes received by that candidate so far. (7 marks)
2. Using Java Comparator interface, implement necessary classes in order to compare candidate objects on the basis of the data members; the number popular votes or the electoral votes. This would help you to find Collections.max() either based on popular votes or electoral votes. (6 marks: 3 marks for each comparison class)
3. State: each object of which represents one state, consisting of the number of electoral votes allocated for that state, list of candidates and the state certified winner. (10 marks)
4. WTA State: each object of which represents one state type that implements WTA method and it consists of an ArrayList of votes. Each vote consist of a name of the presidential candidate for US. (In 2020 presidential election, votes are for either Trump or Biden). (3 marks)
5. CDP State: each object of which represents one state type that implements CDP method and it consists of an ArrayList of votes for each CD. (3 marks)

Note: In each class, implement constructors and appropriate accessor and mutator methods.