One of the ironclad facts about USA Presidential elections is the Electoral College casts all of the votes that count. There are plenty of good reasons for this and one of the biggies is preventing the big States from beating up the little States for that particular office.
The Senate exists for a similar reason. Each State has equal representation in the Senate, as opposed to the way each person is represented in the House of Representatives (see the Connecticut Compromise). We Americans did not elect our Senators directly until after the 17th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted on 31 May 1913.
So, back to that electoral college business. There has been much whining and whimpering about the electoral college electors not being bound to vote for whom they were elected to elect. The States (plus the District of Columbia) have all control over this. If a State wished, they could impose some penalty on the electors for failing to vote for whom they are "supposed" to vote for.
Also, there is much whining and whimpering over the "winner take all" system most States use for their electors. Again, this is fully within the control of each State. Maine and Nebraska have perfectly legal proportional voting systems that other States and the District could copy or they could adopt other proportional voting systems if they wished. To date, none more have adopted such a system.
The 2000 Presidential election was one of those times when the Socialists were positively rabid about the outcome. Their preferred candidate, Vice President Albert Gore, Jr. failed to win the electoral college vote, thus lost his bid for President. However, he did win the popular vote, which is nice but that is no how one wins the presidency in the USA.
Some keep saying, to this day, that "all the votes were not counted." Which is complete nonsense, for sure, and the votes that mattered were counted by Vice President Al Gore, Jr. himself in his capacity as President of the US Senate. Yes, he did, here take a look:
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