Because they're an instrumental part of how the election process works for quite a while now. If a candidate is receiving 0 electoral votes they are functionally as electable as you or I.
You've more than proven yourself to be in bad faith here though, so you'll have to pester someone else with future efforts.
And Robert Duncan McNeill was not-Tom Paris before he was Tom Paris.
Or was he Nicholas Locarno before later being not-Nicholas Locarno