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> So is the US president (Electoral College) It has never happened, but if there once would be enough faithless electors to swing the election (choosing a diff
by sampo 2mo ago
> So is the US president (Electoral College)
It has never happened, but if there once would be enough faithless electors to swing the election (choosing a different president than what people voted for) it would be a huge scandal and it would be widely condemned as undemocratic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector
- mdp2021 2mo ago(Did this not happen in 2016? I understood the absolute aggregate count in the popular vote and the majority of the electoral college differed.)
- sampo 2mo agoI mean, if the electoral college would have enough faithless electors to swing the result away from the president whom the majority of the electors had pledged to vote for. There has been so far 5 elections where the electoral vote chose a different president than what the popular vote count would have chosen. But this is a different thing than what I was talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_in_which_the_winner_lost_the_popular_vote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...