How to Game the US Electoral System

Hint: It's easy if you have a lot of money.

The Electoral College- Trick #1

General Election Results

Presidential Candidate #1 Total Votes = 150,000,000
Presidential Candidate #2 Total Votes = 40

And the winner is Presidential Candidate #2 with only 40 votes.

<poem>Don't think is possible? Or maybe you can figure out how it is possible?

Here is how it would work: In the 10 most populous states all the registered voters went with Presidential Candidate #1. So Presidential Candidate #1 received all there 250 Electoral College Votes. In the 40 least populous states only one person voted in each state and that one person voted for Presidential Candidate #2 receiving all 285 Electoral College Votes from those least populous states.

Here are the details and spreadsheets.

If an amateur spreadsheeter like myself can figure this out in about 30 minutes spare time, imagine what a team of professional statisticians hired by ideologically driven billionaires can do with all the time in the world.

Why Trump is the perfect candidate to take advantage of Trick #1

Most of the least populous states have economies which are not diverse and are heavily dependent on resource extraction. In addition these least populous states have residents who tend to be not only culturally conservative but also culturally homogeneous. Meaning they tend not to adopt social changes like gay marriage readily, they are resistant to influence and successful examples from other countries and their schools and neighborhoods tend to be racially segregated (of course this happens in large cities as well.)