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Originally posted by Gemini
It still all comes down to the whim of a Governor, with a flick of his finger to the Electoral (ONLY counted votists) College people that actually DO the voting as to who gets the States vote. lol
Popular votes are nothing. Its the 10-20-30-40 ELECTORAL voters that vote the President in. That worked in 1800 when there was so much BS in votes, etc. But not today. 
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True and not true. Popular vote still counts to win over a state to either Republican or Democrat. The electoral college people go in and do their thing but rarely (maybe never as far as I know) do they switch their vote from that of the constituants. If the populace voted Democrat then they pledge democrat. Otherwise, conflict would be too obvious and there would be rioting in the streets.
So the popular vote still counts - unless one had the power to manipulate (i.e. miscount) that vote. In this latter case, democracy would be in name only. He who controls the count controls everything.