in prayer utterly rejects to write even one letter that endorses the rule of the tyrant Not necessarily. Voters do not, technically, participate in a direct election of the president. They choose "electors" pledged to support a particular candidate - these are the people who actually elect the president. (There are 538 of them, and big states have more of them than small states.) In every state except Maine and Nebraska, the winner of the popular vote gets all the electoral college votes in that state, even if his or her majority is wafer thin. So it can happen that a candidate ends up with more electoral college votes than the rival candidate, and yet a smaller share, nationally, of the popular vote. supposedly (to my understanding)the electorates of the electoral college (who are chosen to represent the people in the state and the population relative to density, age, demographics etc) votes for the candidate that the majority favors in his/her particular area... but when bush won the last two elections even in counties in particular that did not favor him and this was brought to challange to congress it was ignored... particularly in Florida in the case of one particular county (Duval county) where 87% of citizens voted democrat but the electoral votes went to Bush..... there were cases like this nationwide and cases where votes were seemedly discarded or misrepresented... some areas reflecting lower voter turnout numbers for populations that tend to favor democrats than even disaster stricken