SC electors besieged by requests not to cast votes for Trump

But, Lessig argues both of those cases effectively violated the democratic principle of one person, one vote.

And why is that?

Will the Electoral College turn out to be Hillary Clinton’s best friend? Lara Merling and Dean Baker lay it out: The Electoral College, like the Senate, is biased toward small states.

If Clinton had finished with, say, 50.1 or 50.2% – the sort of vote that Al Gore got in 2000, or Andrew Peacock in Australia back in 1990 – it’d be easier to dismiss it as so close to level as didn’t matter.

It became clear on Election Night that Clinton was going to win the popular vote, even as Trump secured a comfortable victory in the Electoral College. “We deserve elections we can trust”.

The news coverage has moved on to the Trump transition, but several states continue patiently counting their votes from the 8 November presidential election.

According to Google, Montana has 1,024,000 people in the state. The colonies were like separate countries in Europe, zealously protecting their autonomy. The electors will meet in December to formally choose the president. The president we’re electing represents flesh-and-blood people, not the legal concept of states. Suppose, for example, that Ted CruzTed CruzThe Electoral College has to go – here’s how we do it Trump eyes House members for Cabinet jobs Trump’s new weapon? The law will take effect nationally when it is enacted by states with a total of 105 more electoral votes.

Votes are still outstanding in Democratic strongholds California and Washington.

“This is impossible. The electors who have already been determined, they will vote as they should”. There’s no need to apportion the general election by 50 weighted prizes from ME to Hawaii. Trump knew that NY and California were blue states and Clinton knew that she would carry them.

Although Clinton admitted her defeat, some of her supporters believe that the game is not over yet. Like a judge reviewing a jury verdict, where the people voted, the electoral college was meant to confirm – or not – the people’s choice. Trump won them all. The president-elect said that if he were campaigning for the most votes, instead of the Electoral College win, he would have made a push in deep-blue states like NY or California.

State GOP Chairman Matt Moore says he’s received a thousand emails in recent days from people asking him not to cast his electoral vote for the president-elect.

It will be the fifth time the leader of the nationwide vote lost the presidency. This would need a constitutional amendment to change.

This is the way our Electoral College works. That lasted until Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.