The Oregon Capitol building in Salem.
President Barack Obama amassed 332 electoral votes -- including seven from Oregon -- on Nov. 6, compared to 206 to Republican Mitt Romney, and Monday's voting is expected to follow that result.
As students learn in their beginning civics classes, voters on Nov. 6 technically cast their ballots for a slate of electors favoring one of the candidates.
There is the occasional "faithless elector" who ignores the will of voters, and in many cases state law, to vote for someone else (Oregon law requires that electors sign a pledge agreeing to vote for his or her party's candidates). Faithless electors are rare, in part because each party tends to choose a slate of electors who are strong party stalwarts.
In Oregon this year, the seven electors consist of Oregon Democratic Chairwoman Meredith Wood Smith, First Vice-Chairman Frank Dixon and the five Democratic chairs of each congressional district: Mike Bohan of Beaverton, Shirley Cairns of Oakland, Michael Miles of Grants Pass, Sam Sappington of Albany and Joe Smith of Portland.
They will meet at noon Monday in the Senate chambers of the state Capitol to cast their electoral votes.