Hahahaha, there is nothing like members of the electoral college voting dude, you win them based on the states that you win, read more!!!!!......google tasaidia!!!!!

This electoral college is like a parliament, the public votes for US House of Representatives and Senators in each state. The party that gets more than 270 delegates wins the Presidential election. @ Mc Reggae, they do vote around Dec after the results have been announced.. If you were elected on a republican or democratic ticket then its expected you'll vote for your Presidential nominee in the Dec elections, hakuna kubadilisha chama kama hapa.

There have been instances where the electors have defied the popular vote in their states.

This is a parliamentary system. Only that the head of govt's title is President not PM.

The other interesting one is South Africa. They vote for the party, not the candidate. That's why ANC was able to recall Mbeki without necessitating a presidential election.

@ cnn....There is no law requiring Electors to vote in accordance with the popular vote in their States but political parties may extract pledges from electors to vote for the nominees before the elections. Anyway most of these Electors generally hold a leadership position in their party. Its stated also that more than 99 percent of Electors have voted as pledged, huko hakuna Vigeugeu.

@ Mc Reggae.....It all depends on them only that they vote against their Presidential Nominees

He's the President but the process has to be formalised by the Electoral college in Dec, that's why the Inaguration is usually two months afterwards. After the presidential election each governor prepares a Certificate of Ascertainment that shows the winning presidential candidate in the state and that electors have been elected to represent them at the meeting of the electors in the Dec elections.....thats what they use to call the results before the electoral college takes it vote. They don't have to wait for it to declare the Pres-elect but it has to happen.

Hapo iko chida and that is what caused problems in Kenya in 2007/8 whereby ODM got more representatives in bunge but their presidential candidate lost the popular vote, or to put it in another way kibaki won but didn't have majority mpigs due to the mismatch btw population and no of electees/mpigs in different areas. The ratio should be constant.

Ati Ubako won popular vote in 2007 (laughable),coz 70% of them must have voted from graves or Mars.

We complain about their electoral system while it works for them. They agreed on the number of electoral votes democratically. That's all that matters.

At the same time, it is important to consider that the pure one man one vote system or majority rules system will have forever ensured that women would never have voted and blacks would still be in slavery.

Tafakari hayo.

Kenya is the only country I know where leader of government is elected directly.

Name another....