(August 6, 2015 at 10:40 pm)Iroscato Wrote: The US electoral college has always bewildered me. How is it you can have a system that enables a candidate to literally have less votes yet still win the election in certain circumstances?
It was started as an easier means of communication in times pre-telegraph. Rather than every ballot having to be transported to D.C. for counting, the states were responsible and then each was given so much weight. That was it's primary and outlived function.