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According to the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/19/us/elections/electoral-college-results.html?_r=0), two out of 306 electors pledged to vote for Trump didn't vote for him. But of the 232 electors pledged to vote for Hillary Clinton, five didn't vote for her.

Regardless of whether you support Trump or Clinton, why would the system be set up so that an elector can apparently not vote for whom they are pledged? That just seems kinda weird to me, and defeats the purpose of the Electoral College in the first place.