On the hills of the startling results of the 2016 presidential election many Americans were left overwhelmingly mystified and began doubting that their vote counted? After all it was Hillary Rodham Clinton who won the Popular Vote by 2.6 million, yet woefully lost the election to Donald Trump by 97 Electoral College votes (304 to 227). Moreover, it’s important to note the primary difference between the Popular Vote and the Electoral College is that the Popular Vote represents the actual votes received by a candidate and the other represents the votes cast by a state. Typically whoever wins the popular vote wins the Electoral College vote. However, astonishingly this is not always the case, which has led many Americans to begin questioning the relevancy the Electoral College has in our presidential elections specifically in the twenty-first century. The notion that Electors officially represent our states and cast our votes appear to undermine the “collective” nationwide votes of the American people. How is this possible? To answer this question it is necessary to understand how the Electoral College works and how it came to be:
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