RiOTGEEK

Thanks to someone who anonymously sent me a link on how the Electoral College works it still begs the question how are those votes being counted already? (well not really counted per say, but someone is asking electors and they are spilling the beans and thus the media saying a certain candidate has more than the other).

According to the article the Electoral College (all 500 plus of them) vote after the public votes, "On the Monday following the second Wednesday in December, the electors of each state meet in their respective state capitals to officially cast their votes for president and vice president. These votes are then sealed and sent to the president of the Senate, who on January 6th opens and reads the votes in the presence of both houses of Congress." And that is why we all sit and have to watch pundits blabbing on TV through Christmas and sometimes even calling elections before the votes have all come in... or should I say the votes have been miscounted, or lost, or bought properly.

Interestingly enough it does make some sense to me now, the Electoral College allows smaller states with less population have a say in the Presidential election, but I never think of those states anyway, I mean who really does pay attention to those little states up there in the northeast somewhere below Maine and somewhere near New York? It's all weird snobs up there anyway right?