Hillary Clinton’s popular vote lead now over two million

Confidence in the fairness of the vote counting, claims of widespread hacking, and genuine questions about Trump’s mandate continue to swirl.

One news headline, that has many of those who supported Trump throughout his candidacy pulling their hair out in rage this weekend, is the one that stated Trump would not prosecute Hillary Clinton for her illegal use of a private email server during her time as the Secretary of State. Together, these states gave Trump 75 electoral votes, more than his margin of victory.

Much of that lead was generated by California, where Clinton had 3.7 million more votes than Trump in the last totals reported Tuesday evening. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson received 172,136 votes and Green candidate Jill Stein won 51,463.

Votes were still coming in from other states as well, including New Jersey, Illinois, Maryland – though the bulk of uncounted ballots remain in California, where Clinton continues to hold a dominant lead with almost 62 percent of the vote.

Following the 2016 election, Clinton’s loss is the fifth time in USA history a candidate who won the popular vote did not assume the presidency. The Electoral College was viewed as a way to stop the public from electing what the plutocracy might deem as an unqualified candidate. The Electoral College was the product of the best thinking of the best minds of their time – but their time was 240 years ago.

Reports indicated whereas the computer scientists had found no evidence of hacking in the USA electronic voting system, they argue that an independent audit is required to ascertain if indeed Trump won in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. “What’s frustrating to me is that we actually have something we can say to them, and we have chosen, for whatever reason, not to say it”. The answer is – we don’t, until it happens. The math for getting to 270 electoral votes made North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Nevada and OH inordinately important this year for both candidates, but there’s really no reason they should have been.

It has been a upside down election in terms of the voting history of some areas. Even some of the electors themselves want fundamental change: Politico reports that a small group of “faithless” Democratic electors are trying to convince their Republican counterparts to vote against Trump when the college is convened in December-not to deny Trump the presidency, but to highlight the system’s obsolescence.

So, while the cast of the Broadway show Hamilton lectured Vice President-elect Mike Pence at curtain call last week, all of them undoubtedly Clinton supporters, there is a bit of irony that the system that elected Trump was devised by the man from which the hit show is based upon.

Scrapping the Electoral College would change the way candidates run. And although Russian Federation may not have interfered with the election itself, that doesn’t mean Clinton shouldn’t request an audit anyway to investigate. He only created electoral votes during the Constitutional Convention as a compromise. Watch Painter make his argument in the video below.