| | | Firstly, my understanding is that the Founding Fathers, back in 1776, foresaw the possibility of exactly what we have seen happen in Pennsylvania via the judges and the state's court and put the election process in the hands of the Legislators, i.e. the people elected by the people to form the Legislature, and NOT in the hands of the Judiciary ..... which is what Article 2, Section 1, Clause 2 of the Federal Constitution is all about.
Then each State is given a Representation depending on its population size in terms of the number of Electors that will cast their vote in the Presidential election. In this way the President of America is NOT elected by "Popular" vote, which is what the Democrats ultimately want, but by representatives from each state.
If a President was elected by "Popular" vote it would be the highly populated cities that would "Rule" and the less populated, but highly important interior heartlands of America, who would get virtually no say in the matter.
"What if the state voted for the candidate who didn't win the popular vote ?"
My understanding is that the Electors are not always bound by the results of the popular vote in their state. They can, in fact, cast their vote for either of the two final Presidential candidates when the Electoral College meets, as they did on December 14th. These are known as "Faithless Electors" ....
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