Mr. Bussell: I suspect you are correct. I voted for Gary Johnson; as such I don]t really have a dog in this fight, but agree with you as an analytical matter. If there are illegal voters, it seems that they would be congregated in places like California. Those states are highly populated and would have voted blue in any event.I randomly checked online papers when the FBI story broke a week and a half prior to the election. I should have been surprised at the lack of coverage in the press of that story in blue states.

The electoral system is designed to give some representation in national affairs to rural areas: the electoral college binds the nation by protecting against mob rule such as we would have if places like California, New York, and places with very high population density were able to rule by popularity contest. No governing system is perfect; what we have now seems to work as fairly as possible. Leave it alone!