Coming up trumps

While your article in the January issue about why Donald Trump received the number of votes he did is correct, you missed the reason he won: our electoral college method of election. Had this been a straight, majority vote system, Hillary Clinton would be president: she received more than 51 per cent of the votes cast and almost 3 million more votes than Trump.

It is only the peculiar system we have in which we do not elect our president, but rather elect the people who elect the president, as well as the ‘winner takes all’ voting system in most states, that resulted in Trump’s victory. M Ambrose, New York