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Link to the data, a source of the infograph, or something that can get me to interpret what I'm actually looking at. I tried to figure out where it came from and can't find it. I don't see how a wiki link to "The Electoral College" even begins to explain this infograph, and I think it's weird that you think it does.
Electoral votes are winner take all with the exception of Maine and Nebraska. With that in mind there should only be a maximum of 4 colors for all of these maps. Since they are using shades we are led to believe that it is a proportion of population. If it is in fact using electoral college votes than these maps highly manipulative.
The details are basically unreadable from how shitty this version of the infograph is. From what I can tell there's 4 different legends that are unique to each map. The colors, at least according to what I can read on the legend, only convey what each state is named and how many electoral votes each state has. That may not be the case, but it's impossible to tell since it's basically unreadable. The legends also appear to be different on the last map than they are on the first 3 maps. Again, I can't tell exactly because it's basically unreadable on every map.
There's no way to tell what the hell the data means other than someone pasting big bold titles. The fact that the titles don't appear to be displayed consistently and they cut out a dropdown on the left seems weird as hell. I have no way of telling what those selections were even within the tool they were using. Which seems like an odd bit of information to exclude.
Which brings me back to the most important point, there's no readable citation. All of these are cleared up with a citation to a source. The data could in fact be genuinely displaying what it's made out to convey, but I can't possibly tell that without looking at the source of the data, checking what/where the data came from, and then recreating these maps in whatever tool they used. A citation would at least be step 1 to make this infograph anything other than weird propaganda.