How can someone win the popular vote but lose the electoral vote?
How can a president win the electoral vote but lose popular vote?
What happens if presidential candidates cannot get the required amount of electoral votes? What would happen if an independent presidential candidate beats out the Republican and Democratic candidate but fails to win enough electoral votes to secure the presidency? Will the U.S get rid of Electoral Voting System? Why do we use an electoral college to elect the President instead of using the popular vote like for Congress? Can the Electoral College deny the presidency to the person with the the most Electoral votes? What are the advantages and disadvantages of having an electoral college over a popular vote? I've tried, but I still don't understand: How does the Electoral College assure a fairer vote than the popular vote? Why does the US go by electoral votes and not popular votes? Why did the founding fathers decide to use electoral votes instead of popular votes to elect presidents? Why do we use electoral voting instead of majority vote? Should the United States dump the Electoral College and switch to Popular Vote? How democratic is an American vote when an Electoral college vote can overturn the popular vote? What is the point of voting when the electoral college decides who will be president? What would happen if none of the candidates received 270 electoral votes? What are electoral votes? What are the benefits of the electoral college system over the popular vote system? Why does the popular vote matter in America if the electoral college has the final say? Who splits electoral college votes? Why? Does the Electoral College have the power to reject Trump, or any candidate for that matter, if enough electors decided to change their vote? How are electoral votes determined? Why is popular voting required, if US Presidential election results are decided on basis of electoral votes? How will write-in votes for President be counted? I.e. now that far more are *certain* to do so -- how's that work in the electoral college? Why doesn't the US use the popular vote in their general election and presidential election systems? Can presidential candidates vote? Do you believe that we should keep the electoral college or should we switch to popular vote? Why do we have popular vote when the electoral vote overwrites? Electoral college vote can easily be sold to the high bidder can they? According to the law, can faithless electors actually change the result of a presidential election? How could the US electoral voting system be changed? Why is the Electoral college used instead of the popular vote? What happens if both presidential candidates get 269 votes? (USA)?