I am sure that you are all very sick of hearing election talk, but please take the time to read my 500 words; I promise that it is worth it. Whether people are for or against the results of the recent election, they have been very vocal of their opinions on a myriad of social media platforms. For many people the results have been very hard to come to terms with, while for others quite the opposite feeling. I have no intention of adding to the political uproar, however I do have valuable information regarding the technicality that the President of the United States has technically not been voted on. Yes, we all went down and checked off our prefrences on a ballot, however average citizens do not make the final call. The way that the system works in this country is that the Electoral College has the final say. Tuesday night when we all stayed up way too late to watch the election, what we were really watching was the Electoral College for each state getting chosen. The results of the election showed us the layout of which party the electoral college for each individual state will be. The actual decesion of who is going to be President of our country has not been made yet. This is where things get interesting.
Once December rolls around, the Electoral College is going to come together and vote on who should be president. 99 percent of the time, the states with Republican Electoral Colleges vote for the Republican candidate, and vice versa. In some states it is even illegal for the Electoral College to not abide by that regulation, but in many places the college is free to vote on whichever candidate. There has been, to my knowledge, no more than one documented case of the Electoral College voting in the opposite direction than what was expected, regardless of which candidate won the popular vote. In the case of this past election, many Hilary Clinton supporters are hoping that the Republican Electoral College candidates vote in favor of the Democratic side. For those who would rather see Hillary in power, this technicality seems like a ray of light and a glimmer of hope. This election year has been anything but predictable, so there is nobody who can truly say that this is not a possibility. The question that is now being debated is whether or not this would be in the best interest of the country, which again welcomes a lot of debate and differing opinions. Many Americans are in search of consolation after this election, but is trying to sway the votes of the Electoral College the way to go about it? I am not here to confirm nor deny the validity of the idea, because I myself have yet to reason it all out. But as an American citizen with the right to vote and the right to a voice, it is important to factor in all the possibilities.
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