The Winkest Link

By Wink
What do ruthless dictators and theocrats fear the most? Guns?
Nope. They fear an educated citizenry, and they fear the ballot box.
A few decades back Iran was overthrown by religious zealots, and they still run it today. They are not good at paperwork, or dealing with foreign dignitaries, so they installed a puppet ‘leader,’ [...]

The Electoral College is an imaginary mechanism used to select the President of the United States.

Each state is assigned a fairly random number of electoral votes, loosely based on population. The candidate who gets the majority of electoral votes becomes the next president.