# Electoral College revolt?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 11, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electoral-college-revolt/771529 "2016-11-11T19:20:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electoral-college-revolt/771529/65 "2016-11-13T00:13:04Z")

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Don’t forget that she only won the popular vote until we stopped counting. The absentee ballots only get counted if the election is close enough and absentee voters tend to favor republicans, military, overseas business folk, old people. Historically they break down 2/3 in favor of republicans. In fact when gore won by 500,000 votes there were 2 million absentee ballots in California alone.

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