Democratic anti-Trump electors raising money off the effort

What is the Electoral College?

The reason the Electoral College was established, rather than just providing for the direct election of the president, was that most of the nation’s founders were actually rather afraid of democracy.

They’d have to decide soon, because the Electoral College meets in each state capital on December 19 to cast those votes.

Thank God for the Electoral College. Right now she has 232 to Trump’s 306, should the electors vote as they are traditionally expected to: in line with the majority of their state.

Each state is allocated a number of electors equal to the number of its USA senators (always two) plus the number of its U.S. representatives (which may change each decade according to the size of each state’s population as determined in the Census). It is proof the Electoral College is a bad idea for Americans. In Washington state, electors could face a misdemeanor and a $1,000 fine.

During the Constitutional Convention, the smaller states were concerned that a system that relied on popular votes would give too much power to the large states. It’s winner-take-all in every state except ME and Nebraska.

After the presidential election, your governor prepares a “Certificate of Ascertainment” listing all of the candidates who ran for President in your state along with the names of their respective electors.

According to the National Archives, historically, 99 percent of electors have stood by their party’s vote.

Al Gore was one man who won the popular vote but lost the presidency to George W. Bush in 2000. It allows all states to have an important part in electing our leaders instead of a few.

As Alexander Hamilton writes in “The Federalist Papers”, the Constitution is created to ensure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications”.

Michael Banerian, the youth vice-chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, will be one of his state’s 16 electors. Whatever the party, to have that vote count. Most recently, the bill was passed 40-to-16 in the Republican-controlled Arizona House; 28-to-18 in the Republican-controlled Oklahoma Senate; 57-to-4 in the Republican-controlled New York Senate; and 37-to-21 in the Democratic-controlled Oregon House.

“We’re trying to be that “break in case of emergency” fire hose that’s gotten dusty over the last 200 years”, Chaifolo told the Atlantic.