The first thing millions of Americans see when they log onto their Facebook pages each morning is a bright picture of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump with an American flag backdrop. The words “Make Clinton President” caption the photo, and if you press on them, an entire Facebook page dedicated to this petition lights up the screen.

Ever since Clinton lost to Trump, petitions have been lighting up many news websites and social media platforms. They tell the reader that Clinton, whose lead in the popular vote is constantly expanding as more votes come in, should be president instead of Trump. They ask us to sign a petition for the Electoral College to recast their votes for Clinton instead of for Trump, and they ask Electors to turn rogue in the hope that Trump will be defeated.

When Americans went out and voted on election day, they weren’t casting their votes directly for their candidate. They were casting their votes for which party’s Electors they wanted, Democrat or Republican, to then vote for president. Electors always cast their votes for their party’s candidate.

But maybe not this year.

The petition has more than four million signatures, and though many people are skeptical of whether this could actually reach the electors, it was officially named the fastest growing and most signed petition in its website’s history. There has never been anything like this before, and even if it doesn’t work, it acknowledges how undemocratic the Electoral College is.

Shouldn’t the candidate who won more votes be our president?

Yes, the candidate that received more votes should be president. Yes, the candidate that won the popular vote should be president regardless of whether that candidate won the Electoral College. And here’s why.

If a candidate wins the Electoral College and loses the popular vote, the majority of the country still voted for the other candidate, regardless of the electoral margin. Because the Electoral College is a winner takes all system, a candidate can win a whole state even with the smallest margin of votes. It is possible for a candidate to win the presidency, then, with little more than 20% of the popular vote. Such a system can elect a president for whom only a fifth of the country voted.

This is a reason why so many Americans don’t vote. If they live in a traditionally blue state, they figure, the margin of democratic votes won’t matter. If the democratic candidate will win there anyway, why go out and vote if the winner in that state is virtually decided already? Abolishing the Electoral College would urge more people to vote because, contrary to our system today, every vote would count.

There is no denying that Clinton beat Trump by millions of votes, that millions more Americans wanted her in office than they wanted him, and that a majority of the country did not vote for our president-elect. There is no denying that there is something seriously wrong with this system, especially when this happens to two presidential races within sixteen years of each other. This is bigger than both Clinton and Trump–this election shed light on everything wrong with the Electoral College.

Democracy is defined as a state governed by the people. How can we say the United States is fully immersed in democracy when the very system used to elect our highest branch of power has proved to be the exact opposite of this?

Next time you see a notification for this petition pop into your inbox or light up your news feed, click on it and sign it. You never know. Change could happen.