(10-01-2016, 11:39 PM)EspyLacopa Wrote: But isn't it the Electoral College that votes in the President, not the regular voters? You know, that group of people who many times don't even have to cast their vote in support of the people they supposedly represent.
In the electoral college, faithless electors are extremely rare, and I don't believe they have ever changed the outcome of an election (though I'm not entirely certain about this for elections before 1820 or so, when things were weird).
The electoral college system is weird, but the aspects that affects presidential elections is that states allocate their electors in blocks rather than proportionally, and that states do not have a number of electors exactly proportional to their population, not that electors change their votes in undemocratic ways.
Even then, it's pretty rare for that to matter for the outcome, though it did happen in 2000.
-Jester