1) Actually it doesn't strictly speaking work like that. There have been multiple elections where the winner of the Electoral College triumphs over others who have a popular vote majority. 2000 was the fourth.

2) JEB didn't do a very good job, then, if the result was actually able to be challenged. Which is only an example of the kind of stupidity that most conspiracy theories run on.

3) Business as usual used to mean that people were hung and targeted in pogroms, not what you're talking about.