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I'm confused. I don't know the US electoral system that well but why are "electoral college" votes even a thing anyway? What does it add to the process?

Basically, it's sometimes difficult to invalidate these old, dated parts of the U.S. Constitution, so legislators have come up with ways of reworking certain things. Originally the average person did not vote for president, a different group, the College, did. The law was eventually changed to allow people to vote for who the state's electors should cast their vote for, resulting in a system where most of the time the person who got the most votes wins, but with some exceptions, like Rutherford B. Hayes' victory over Samuel Tilden, Benjamin Harrison's victory over Grover Cleveland, Bush's victory over Gore, and Fat Donnie's victory over Clinton.

The Republican Party, being a far-right extremist party when compared to any other 1st world political parties, loves the Electoral College because it allows them to get people into office without a majority of voters consenting and even though their agenda is unpopular with a majority of Americans.

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