text: . Electoral vote, the thing that determines who becomes president, is done by the Electors determined when voters chose which candidate they wanted to win. Electoral vote, and popular vote are not the same thing, for instance one could win the popular vote, yet lose the electoral vote. Why is this? Well, one can not promise that an elector, will vote for the same candidate that the American people have already chosen. Also, because of this system, candidates tend to visit only the "swing" states, instead of trying to win over the majority of the country, they focus only on the states which change periodically from red to blue! When I was younger, i used to ask my parent what would happen if a tie ever occured during a presidential election. Now I know. In the case of a tie, the election is thrown into the House of Representatives, where they then vote on the president. Let me explain why this is unfair, each state only casts one vote, so a delegate from Wyoming reprents the vote of 500,000 while a delegate from  California is supposed to represent 35 million! there is no possible way for one person to be able to speak for 500,000+, everyone has their own opinion. Everyone belongs to a political party; not everyone belongs to the same party.