Anti-Trump forces launch attack on Electoral College

[DesertRat]

Anti-Trump forces are preparing an unprecedented assault on the Electoral College, marked by a wave of lawsuits and an intensive lobbying effort aimed at persuading 37 Republican electors to vote for a candidate other than Donald Trump.

It’s a bracing stress-test for an institution that Alexander Hamilton envisioned as a safeguard against popular whims, and a direct challenge to the role that the Electoral College has evolved to play in picking the president: constitutional rubber stamp.

Behind the overt anti-Trump push is a covert agenda: If the courts establish that individual electors can switch allegiances, supporting candidates other than those who win their states, it would inject so much uncertainty innip)to the process that states may be willing to junk the Electoral College in favor of a popular-vote winner.

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Leaders of the effort, mainly Democrats, have plans to challenge laws in the 29 states that force electors to support their party’s candidate. Those laws have never been tested, leaving some constitutional experts to argue they’re in conflict with the founders’ intention to establish a body that can evaluate the fitness of candidates for office and vote accordingly.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-electoral-college-231980

[dubyadiprecession]

1. If the electoral college were fair, a state like Wyoming would have 3 electoral votes and...

California would have 190 electoral votes. That is, if you base it upon 1 person =1 vote.