Electoral College

The presidential election is already over. It's possible one can win the popular vote, and yet still lose the election. We don't directly elect our President, instead we choose delegate who will casts the votes in an electoral college, but I just want to point out in this blog an interesting tidbit that in six states, including Massachusetts, where all of its delegates goes to the candidate that won the national popular vote, regardless how its residents vote. Just think of it, if everyone in your state vote for a Republican candidate, all of its delegates goes to a Democratic candidate because he has the most votes nationwide. It doesn't make any sense, but that's politics. There is nothing in the Constitution that requires electors to vote whoever the winners are in their state but most states have laws on these issues. No "unfaithful" electors has ever been prosecuted. One other note, Maine and Nebraska electoral votes are based on winners of their Congressional districts. Democrats are now in control of Congress, so you can bet there will be a lot of gerrymander, voting suppressions and Political Action Committees to accept illegal (dark money) contribution, nonexistence (ghost) candidates to disrupt the outcome, foreign interferences and misinformation, etc. There is an ongoing debate of reforming our "outdated" electoral college.

This is Smokey stay tuned for the next episode of Deaf Anthology, Good Night Deaf America!