The answer is B. The people vote does count and matter but in the end the electoral college is the one to cast votes and elect our president.
I think A. more enjoyable
Yes it would have because if Virginia had rejected secession, the prospect of Lee in command of Union forces rather than Confederate forces would have presented major problems for the Confederacy. The South would have lost a major economic and political asset, the state of West Virginia would never have been created, the war would almost certainly have been shorter. Interestingly, such circumstances might cast some doubts on how determined the North would have been to end slavery permanently.
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B.Governor is the chief executive at the state level who must sign the state budget into law.