text: The electoral vote overrule the peoples votes. For example "Obama received 61.7 precent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percentof the popular votes cast for him and Romney." It just is not fair for the people to vote for who they want as president and the Electoral College puts who they want in instead who people want in office. The people want who they want not who you put in office. In the state of Florida there are 29 electoral votes, Texas there are 38, California has 55.