Well, they vote and the EC takes over and calmly cancels the power of those who didn't side with the majority by virtue of the imaginary state line. A bad idea to my mind, but one that has only fouled things a handful of times.
It is what it is. Why is it? Let's explore...
Yeah, you got that one wrong. We absolutely know that Clinton won around three million more of those people. Collecting their votes is how the EC is directed, even if shortly thereafter it negates the value of a great many.
But you still don't know because you didn't have that election.
I'll let my landmark thread on the subject stand as closure to that question on my side, so that we can move on to the source.
I've set out the harm I think usurping their will in the process does to the institutions of government once it starts happening frequently and my response to the peculiar notion of geography giving some more power than others, prior. That sort of thing.
And now we get to the next level.
Let's enumerate the levels of Inequity if not for our edification but those watching from abroad.
Every Ten years we count everyone in a Census.
We divide that number by 435 and spread that out along state lines with all districts being inside a state and every state gets at least one.
So already we have a population inequity. Right? With huge disparities in population per Representative.
Then You have The Senate. Two Senators, Two votes, no matter how small in area or Population.
The Senate is purely a construct of History. Laid in stone as each State Ratified the Constitution or applied for Statehood later.
And these two things can add up to what we had here in November.
The EC is not a thing, it's a thing of two things. Determined by two things and any problem is a consequence of a problem with the underlying two things.