Anti-Electoral College now has bluish tint

With more than 130 million votes counted, Clinton leads Trump by more than 1 million votes.

Hillary Clinton failed to energize the base, or transcend the indifference that too many voters felt for her. Turnout was only 56.8 percent, just one percent higher than 2012, and lower than the 58.2 percent turnout in 2008. All those millions of extra votes were simply wasted. Delegates from small states were and still are favored against the states with larger populations. No wonder the state is ticked off.

To be clear, this is still kind of a long shot, and it’s got its detractors. Even that’s probably overstating its chances. Should such a thing pass, the amendment would only take effect if ratified by three-fourths of the states within seven years after its passage in the U.S. Congress.

If they felt the victor was primarily supported by a large state or just one region of the nation, or was a man of poor character, he could be rejected.

Petitions are springing up across the internet calling for the electors of the Electoral College to abandon the way their states voted and instead vote for Clinton. Election results would cease to carry the weight of finality and results would drag out like they do in so many other countries where democracy is either still developing or corrupted. We must abolish the Electoral College. See, under the current system, voters don’t vote directly for president.

In that scenario, they would become what is known as faithless electors.

About 350 of those contacts were what looked to Mr. Asher to be form emails that split into two camps – some suggesting he vote for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, others asking him to support any Republican for president except Mr. Trump.

In any event, despite the numerous laws punishing faithless electors, none have ever been prosecuted and many legal scholars believe the laws are unconstitutional. An Electoral College of representatives of each state would meet and consider the candidates, using the popular vote as just one factor.

Boxer noted in a statement that Donald Trump is the fifth candidate in USA history to lose the popular vote and still become president. “The Democratic candidates would spend all their time trying to run up their numbers in NY and California”. But this only adds up to 165 electoral votes – not almost enough. This system, where the state’s popular vote victor gets all the electoral votes, dates back to the early 1800s. For all the principled arguments for and against the Electoral College, there are still plenty of partisan motivations here.

Protestors demonstrate against President-elect Donald Trump outside Independence Hall on November 13, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Obviously they’d love to change the system. Right now the system advantages their more rural constituency.

“There’s no amount of money you could pay me to (change my vote)”, Lynne Davis, an Electoral College member from Lascassas, told The Tennessean. Her speech to the Children’s Defense Fund, where she started her career as an intern, was scheduled before her electoral loss to Donald Trump.