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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
The electoral college is actually quite simplistic.
For 48 states and DC, if you win the popular vote of that state you carry all the electoral votes.
Each states gets one electoral vote per congressman and one per senator.
For Maine and Nebraska, the electoral votes that represent the senators are the popular vote of the state, and the popular vote of each congressional district carries that electoral vote.
In order to be elected president you need to have 50%+1 of the votes of the electoral college. If no one has 50%+1 of the votes of the electoral college then the top three vote getters are on a ballot which is voted on by the House of Representatives.
Everyone goes on about how complicated it is. It really isn't.
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Also, only certain states legislate that the electoral voters must vote for the party candidate that wins the popular vote in that state. And of course the whole thing about them actually voting for a President on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December.
I know this sounds counter-intuitive, but it's actually so simplistic that it makes it complicated. A popular vote can sweep in all the representatives, regardless, for a particular party. And then these representatives are expected *wink* *wink* to vote the candidate of their party. It's supposed to a contingency plan for the country, but the electoral college vote has become a formality rooted in nothing more than tradition.
If the electoral college were really looking out for the best interests of the United States, they would vote Trump out or enact some measure to stop this farce of an election.