This issue irritates me more than most. One of the reasons for the electoral college form of electing the president is the following. In order to "elect" a president fraudulently it is rather simple if strict popular vote is tallied. Just go to a populous city and stuff an extra 10 million ballots! With the electoral college method, the miscreants have to stuff ballots in a BUNCH of particular locations. AND... it is very possible that one would NOT know all the correct cities that need stuffing until the night of the election, thus making it very difficult to pre-meditatively throw an election. It takes a lot of "machinery" to throw a national election (JFK was lucky that only a very small area was needed to "win".) /rant
They are so obvious. Who do they think they're kidding?