Quote Originally Posted by R Pope View Post
Electricity follows the path of least resistance.
That's true, but an oversimplification. Resistances in parallel are a current dividing circuit, where the current flow through each resistance is proportional to the value of the individual resistances. Said another way, all the electricity doesn't flow only through the resistance of the lowest value ("path of of least resistance"), but through all resistances in varying degree according to their values.

Bob