"What is truth?" Pilate asked. Then he want out again to the people and told them, "He is not guilty of any crime. But you have a custom of asking me to release someone from prison each year at Passover. So if you want me to, I'll release the King of the Jews." But they shouted back, "No! not this man, but Barabbas!" - John 18:38-40
There was an "election" and the people, actually the mob, chosed a criminal rather than Jesus. Here, the majority wasn't right. Does this situation sounds familiar to you at the present time?