Clinton scored 400 thousands more Americans than Trump. Updated

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In the United States continue to count the votes that were cast for presidential candidates. According to CNN, by Friday 97% of bulletins were processed. The data shows that for Hillary Clinton 60 467 601 vote was given, Trump gains 60 072 551 vote of voters.

Thus, Hillary Clinton wins the “popular vote” - she has an advantage of almost 400 thousand votes. The processing of ballots is still ongoing. But the trend is already obvious - if elections in the United States were direct based on the principle of a simple majority, the Democratic candidate would become the new president.

Data as of November 11. Infographics ForumDaily

The US has already encountered this situation in the famous 2000 event of the year between Gore and Bush. Then Republican George W. Bush also gained more electoral votes, although in absolute terms fewer people voted for him than Democrat Al Gore.

NBC believes that the more often such precedents occur, the stronger the arguments of those who say that the presidential election can hardly be called democratic.

“We want to bring this issue to public debate,” says John Koza, founder of the National Popular Vote campaign. “Our goal is to get rid of the Electoral College.” “We believe that every vote across the United States should have equal weight. We believe that the candidate who receives the majority of votes should become president,” Koza convinces.

NBC recalls that such precedents occurred 5 times in US history: in 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000 and, obviously, in 2016 year. Five times the electoral college brought to power a person for whom fewer people voted than a rival. This, according to the calculations of journalists, is every 10 campaign.

At the same time, opponents of the Electoral College say that all the precedents that have occurred cannot be attributed to chance. One problem is that smaller states receive an advantage in electoral votes. The minimum possible number is 3. The campaign's authors compare California and Wyoming. Wyoming has 3 electoral votes, California has 55. That is 18 times more, while California's population is 69 times that of Wyoming.

Writer and conservative activist Dana Ross says minority rule in the Constitution makes a lot of sense. “The Founding Fathers of the United States, when they conceived this principle, precisely wanted the voice of the minority to be heard in a democratic country. Because, as often happens, the majority tyrannizes the minority,” says Ross.

However, according to NBC journalists, this does not answer the question why the majority usually elects the president.

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