Lakhota
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- Jul 14, 2011
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Voting always matters. It's the Electoral College that sometimes messes things up. It should be abolished.
Do you know how the voters of the Electoral College are chosen?
Do you know when those votes are actually counted and the President is officially elected?
Funny. The popular vote doesn't elect the president. Otherwise, Hillary Clinton would be president.
No, the Electoral College elects the President.
In each state, each Presidential candidate who is on the ballot gives the state a list of his/her electors for that state. You know the list of candidates can be different in every state?
The list of people the candidates files will only go to the state capitol in December if the candidate wins that state. The candidate hopes the electors he/she has chosen will be loyal, but their is no requirement. When the electors arrive at the state capitol they are given two ballots. One with the names of all the candidates who ran for president in their state and one with the names of the candidates who ran for vice president in their state.
The electors fill out their ballots, they are collected, put in an envelope, and sent to the President of the Senate in Washington.
The envelopes are not opened until Congress meets in January when the President of the Senate opens the envelopes in front of the fully assembled Congress and tallies the votes.
Why isn't Hillary Clinton president? She received almost 3 million more votes than Trump.
Because she sucked so bad that enough people woke up in States she ignored that they voted for Trump. And they are happy they did.
But, but she got 3 million more votes than Trump. Why isn't she president?