The founders did not create a coalition government. They specified an electoral college which is allocated as states choose.
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Your reply is correct but there are many states now trying to subvert the Constitution by having a compact between states to award all their electors to the person who wins the majority of votes in the Union, not the state. They would in the last election have awarded all the electors in their state to Hillary Clinton even if she had not received a single vote in their state. There are those who say it is up to the state to determine how they award those votes in their state but if my state were in the Compact I would sue to say my vote did not count.
Who would you sue if your state decided that the legislature alone would choose, and you had no vote at all?
-PJ