Anyone who has lived in a state with a large city with a political machine will understand why the popular vote cannot be trusted. It is doubtful that any city that votes Democrat has as many citizens as are on the voting rolls. If a city is voting Democrat there is almost no state that the virtual voters will not overwhelm the actual vote.
When Missouri is close to going Republican St. Louis will have a surge of late voters and a judge ordering that the polls are kept open. The same happen in Illinois with Chicago and Connecticut with Bridgeport, Seattle in Washington State, Minneapolis in Minnesota, California and any city over a million. Occasionally in census years like Chicago in 1960 the vote in the city will exceed that number of eligible adults in the cities.
In California this is sometime the results of votes of people who are registered to live in in Mexico City or Hanoi voting in California but in Pennsylvania it is always the result of virtual voting of virtual citizens in Philadelphia.
