Fact Check: Can Electoral College put Clinton into White House?

A voter is more apt to believe their vote counted when a percentage of popular votes are taken into account rather than the “all or nothing” system now in existence.

At least six electors – members of the Electoral College whose votes elect the President – have vowed to cast their ballots in an attempt to block Donald Trump from winning an Electoral College majority, Politico reported Tuesday. In 2000, Al Gore received more popular votes than George W. Bush. Trump defeated Clinton by a projected approximate amount of 70 Electoral College votes despite losing the popular vote by approximately two million votes.

Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein and others are seeking an audit and recount of the results in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The gap between the two is approximately 1.5 million, in which Hillary Clinton got 48% of the votes while Trump got 47%. The margin of victory was out of more than 4.79 million votes cast in the race for president.

It’s highly unlikely that will happen, but the defectors could put the issue of abolishing the Electoral College on the front burner. The win in MI was worth 16 votes for Trump. “I’ll see every once in a while someone says, ‘Well, the popular vote'”.

“This unifying mechanism (the Electoral College) does not, however, come without a small price. Campaigning is much different!” He also said he was “never a fan of the Electoral College”, adding, “until now”.

Not including Michigan, Clinton earned 232 electoral votes to Trump’s 290, with 270 needed to win the electoral vote.

The Electoral College, which gives each state a number of electors equal to their representation in Congress, is a system that dates back to the founders of the Constitution.

One reason the Electoral College was created was to ensure no single region of the U.S. could dominate the election, such as the North out-voting the South along old Civil War lines.