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Originally Posted by spooph
I'm very sorry, I've been trying to make sense of this for over a year. I guess I'm just dumb, but I'm going to keep trying.
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I am not completely sure when electors are chosen and by "exactly" who. But at a high level....
California has 55 electoral votes
That means there are 55 for republicans
That means there are 55 for democrats
That means there are 55 for each of the other parties as well
So if the popular vote says their party's candidate wins... THAT set of 55 electors is who goes to actually vote for president. Here is the kicker though... There are only so many "people of interest/influence", so cross contamination is possible. So if the governor of California is on both the R and D electoral lists... how will he vote? THAT is how you invalidate the popular vote.
Diving deeper....
Let's say out of the 55 votes and the state goes blue...
31 may be only on the R list
10 may be on both the R and D list (how will they vote?!?!?!? nobody knows)
3 will vote D no matter what (reason doesn't matter)
11 are in the middle but on the R and Green or Lib party lists, but still could vote D because it's closer to their beliefs