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From ELLE

It's been three weeks since the election, and while Donald Trump won the election, Hillary Clinton lead in the popular vote continues to grow.

On election night, Clinton lead the popular vote by 175,000 votes. Now, that lead has widened to 1.5 million-she currently holds 62,523,126 votes to Trumps 61,201,031 votes.

Why are votes still coming in if a presidential elect has already been chosen? Well, there are about four million mail-in and absentee votes that have yet to be counted. The majority of these uncounted votes are from presumably blue states like, California, Washington, and New York. The Atlantic reports that state officials are still tallying up the late votes, and it is predicted that Clinton will accumulate another few million.

This is only the fourth time in U.S. history that a nominee has won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College and the election. Despite Clinton's growing popular vote lead, it's unlikely that the election results will change. Clinton won (and continues to win) more votes, total, but the majority of them are all coming from the same states, which means the outcome of the Electoral College vote remains the same.

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