I got this on electoral college vote online. Question is.. Why stress the people with voting when it might not matter.

The Electoral College


As prescribed in the U.S. Constitution, American presidents are elected not directly by the people, but by the people’s electors.

The Electoral College was created by the framers of the U.S. Constitution as an alternative to electing the president by popular vote or by Congress. Each state elects the number of representatives to the Electoral College that is equal to its number of Senators—two from each state—plus its number of delegates in the House of Representatives. The District of Columbia, which has no voting representation in Congress, has three Electoral College votes. There are currently 538 electors in the Electoral College; 270 votes are needed to win the presidential election.

Several weeks after the general election, electors from each state meet in their state capitals and cast their official vote for president and vice president. The votes are then sent to the president of the U.S. Senate who, on January 6 with the entire Congress present, tallies the votes and announces the winner.

The winner of the Electoral College vote is usually the candidate who has won the popular vote. However, it is possible to win the presidency without winning the popular vote. There have been a total of five candidates who have won the popular vote but lost in the Electoral College, with the most recent cases occurring in the 2016 and 2000 elections.   Two other presidents—Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876 and Benjamin Harrison in 1888—became president without winning the popular vote. In the 1824 election between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, Jackson won the popular vote but neither won a majority of Electoral College votes. Adams secured the presidency only after the election was decided by vote of the House of Representatives, a procedure provided for in the Constitution when no candidate wins a majority of the Electoral College.

The Electoral College

The Electoral College is not a place, it’s the process that takes place to election the President of the United States. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution.

All those voting na audio.... It's the coalition of the electoral colleges and most times first candidate to reach 270 between the votes of the senate and the white house...

Makes sense

Because American founding fathers reason like Igbo people, perhaps copied it from Igbos according to a US historian.

True representation is based on electoral (block or clan) vote not popular votes or numbers. For example in Igbo clans and villages, they have voting block based on the size of the clan or village. For example, Umunachi has 5000 people, they get 5 block vote, Owelle has 2000 people, gets 2 block vote, Awka has 100,000 gets 100 block of vote, e.t.c. Why did Igbo ancestors do this? They do this because they don't want Awka to dominate other small villages or clan on the map. So that when Awka is trying to dominate, Umunachi, Owelle and the rest of other smaller clans and villages, those smaller clans and villages will combine their votes to get over Awka's big 100 block vote to keep Awka in check.

That's exactly what US founding fathers did. So that Texas, New York, California and Florida will not dominate the smaller states. Had Nigerian founding fathers known about this or wanted fairness, they would have done this so that North will not be dominating the south with their numbers.

Come on sense!

US historian Democracy started in Igboland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm04tUbuog8