5 Things You Should Know About The Electoral College 
 
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 Electors from the 50 states will convene in their state capitols Monday and cast their votes for president. Republican Donald Trump is assured of a victory, unless there is a massive — and totally unexpected — defection by the electors who are pledged to support him. 
 
 Here are five things you should know about the Electoral College: 
 
 1. How do you get to be an elector? 
 
 The Constitution leaves it up to each state to select its electors, but "there are two main ways," said George Edwards, a distinguished professor of political science at Texas A&M; University: 
 
 One is at state party conventions, when party members select a slate of electors, often party officials, almost always party insiders. That's how Jonathan Barnett was chosen. He's a Trump elector in Arkansas and was elected during his state party convention in August. Barnett believes that, as a former state representative and national GOP committeeman, he was chosen because of his "dedication and loyalty to the party, and history with the party as a known factor." 
 
 That last point is important, because, he said, his phone has been ringing off the hook with people opposed to Trump, calling to plead with him to vote for someone else. 
 
 "Absolutely not" going to happen, he said. 
 
 The alternative to being selected at a state party convention is being chosen by the party's central committee or otherwise qualifying. Karen Packer, a Democratic elector in Oregon, was chosen automatically by virtue of her position as state party first vice chair. 
 
 She said she is "very honored" to be an elector, even if in a losing cause. She said she has a certificate "suitable for framing" and signed by the Oregon secretary of state. Oregon's seven electors will cast their ballots in the state Senate chamber in Salem. 
 
 2. Are electors legally bound to vote for their party's nominee? 
 
 Some states have passed laws to prevent so-called "faithless electors" from straying from their party's nominee. In other states, parties require electors to sign pledges of their loyalty. But Edwards isn't sure the state laws, which have not been challenged, would hold up in court. He believes they're unconstitutional, because, he said, "the Constitution gives electors the right to exercise discretion." 
 
 In fact, he said, the founders expected electors to act independently, as there were no political parties at the time. He notes that electors were chosen by state legislatures until the 1830s. 
 
 3. Can anyone become an elector? 
 
 Yes, except for federal officeholders, such as members of Congress or the executive branch. The states are required to submit "Certificate(s) of Ascertainment" listing their electors by Dec. 19 to the Office of the Federal Register, which administers the process. 
 
 4. So the electors meet in their state capitols Monday and cast their ballots for president. Then what? 
 
 The states then submit a Certificate of Vote to the Federal Register, listing each person who received a vote for president and for vice president. There are to be six such certificates in each state, signed by each of that state's electors. 
 
 Two of the certificates are then to be sent to Washington, with a copy to the vice president in his role as president of the Senate, and to the National archivist. (They have to be received in Washington by the president of the Senate and archivist by Dec. 28. See other key dates and processes here, from the National Archives and Records Administration.) 
 
 On Jan. 6, the votes will be formally tallied before a Joint Session of Congress, and assuming someone gets a majority, or 270, electors, we'll officially know our next president. 
 
 5. This seems to be a pretty convoluted way of choosing a leader, isn't it? 
 
 Edwards certainly believes so. "It's a bizarre way of doing things," he said. 
 
 There are efforts to change it, especially after this past election, which saw the winner of the popular vote lose the election for the second time in the past five elections. The National Popular Vote proposal would guarantee the winner of the popular vote is the winner of the presidency. It needs support from enough states to add up to 270 electoral votes. It has so far been enacted by 11 jurisdictions with 165 electoral votes. 
 
 But it is unlikely to be adopted by a majority of states anytime soon. ||||| On Monday, electors from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., will assemble in their state houses and elect the next president of the United States. 
 
 Typically, the Electoral College vote is a straightforward procedure, as electors follow the popular vote in the state they represent and the previously announced president-elect is verified to become the next president. But this year may be different. As controversies continue to mount against President-elect Donald Trump, from his numerous conflicts of interest to openly provoking the Chinese, many are looking to the Electoral College as the last bastion of hope for keeping Trump from the Oval Office — and the nuclear codes. 
 
 Though there have been only 157 "faithless electors" — electors who didn't cast their vote for the president-elect — since the Electoral College's founding, this election could see far more of these than usual. So far, only one Republican elector, Chris Suprun of Texas, has publicly declared his intention to vote for someone other than Trump. However, Politico reported Harvard University professor Larry Lessig, who has been offering free legal counsel to electors, claims to have heard from 20 who would consider making the switch. In order for Trump to fall short of the 270-vote majority needed to secure him the presidency, 37 Republican electors would have to defect. 
 
 As we near Monday's vote, a reminder to our GOP friends: It's ok to act your conscience. That's what American patriots do. #FreeTheElectors 
 
 How this vote will play out remains to be seen — and there's a chance we may have to wait until after Monday to find out. 
 
 Monday's vote 
 
 The Electoral College vote will take place across the country, with most votes, according to the National Constitution Center, set to occur between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. local time. Hawaii votes last at 2:00 p.m. local time (7:00 p.m. Eastern), though, as the state voted for Hillary Clinton, its Electoral College vote will likely not change the expected results. 
 
 What happens next 
 
 After the states vote on Monday, it's likely that we'll find out the outcome later in the evening, assuming that each state publicly declares its results right away. The National Constitution Center noted that the Associated Press announced the 2012 Electoral College results shortly before 6:00 p.m. Eastern on Dec. 17, 2012, the date the vote was held. Of course, the results of that election were far less contentious, with President Barack Obama winning both the popular and electoral vote. 
 
 Americans will also be able to see the official certificates of votes and Electoral College results on the Office of the Federal Register website after they're received and verified, which the website notes will be "sometime after the Electors meet and vote on Dec. 19, 2016." 
 
 Vice President Joe Biden leads a Senate procession to the House chamber for the official electoral vote count on Jan. 4, 2013. Source: Jacquelyn Martin/AP 
 
 The vote, however, will not be officially counted and announced until Jan. 6 at 1 p.m. Eastern, when members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives will meet to officially record the electoral votes. The meeting, presided over by Vice President Joe Biden, will give legislators the opportunity to challenge any individual electoral votes — by a faithless elector, for instance — as well as the votes from an entire state delegation. Any objections, which must be presented in writing, will be discussed by the House and Senate, who will have two hours to split up and consider their stance on the objection. If both chambers agree, the objected votes are thrown out, but the New York Times noted that no objection to an electoral vote has ever been sustained. 
 
 At that point, Biden will declare the Electoral College results, and — barring a miracle on Monday — Donald Trump will officially become the next president of the United States. ||||| When Alexander Hamilton sketched his design of the Electoral College, he envisioned a free-flowing debate in which electors followed the dictates of their own conscience, rather than the will of the voters who chose them — a debate not so different than the one waged by anti-Donald Trump electors to block his election as president. 
 
 Those rogue electors aren’t likely to succeed in preventing Trump’s election Monday, but they could succeed at something even more significant: sowing enough distrust in the Electoral College to set in motion a movement to do away with it, to be replaced by popular election of the president. 
 
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 “It just shows how fragile our democracy is that this is what we’re relying on to carry out people's wishes,” said Justin Nelson, a constitutional lawyer and founder of One Nation, One Vote, a group advocating for policies to sidestep the Electoral College and choose the president by popular vote. 
 
 “This is a real warning sign for our democracy,” he said. 
 
 A group of so-called “Hamilton Electors” — nine Democrats and one Republican who borrowed the Found Father’s name in a nod toward his call for deliberation — has been working to persuade at least 36 other Republicans to ditch Trump, just enough to block his immediate election and send the contest to the House of Representatives. To accomplish that, the Democrats involved have signaled they might reject their own statewide popular vote winner, Hillary Clinton, in favor of a consensus Republican alternative to Trump. 
 
 Even if they persuade no new electors to join them, their efforts would represent an unprecedented defection, effectively nullifying the votes of millions of people in those states. 
 
 That fact alone could spark demands for change, say some opponents of the Electoral College. 
 
 “There’s an element in the Electoral College which nobody could possibly justify these days — and that is the discretion of electors,” said George Edwards III, a constitutional expert at Texas A&M University. 
 
 “The irony is that electors exercising discretion is exactly what the Constitution and the framers envisioned,” he said. “But it raises some really serious questions about the modern notion of democracy.” 
 
 The anti-Trump effort has spawned a tidal wave of calls, emails, ads and even threats, subjecting electors on both sides to an unprecedented barrage of attention. The central argument of Trump foes is that Hamilton and the other Founding Fathers intended the Electoral College to be deliberative and to prevent the ascension of an unqualified president — or one who was under the thumb of foreign powers. 
 
 Advocates of the effort argue that Trump fails both of these tests, and if electors won’t stop him, the system should be overhauled. 
 
 “If Monday’s results show the Electoral College has failed to meet the purpose Alexander Hamilton envisioned in Federalist Paper No. 68, then it should be reformed in one of two directions,” said Charlottesville, Virginia, Mayor Michael Signer, a constitutional expert and supporter of the anti-Trump cause.” Either it should just automatically mirror the popular vote. Or electors should be chosen who would truly check a demagogue and foreign interference in our government. 
 
 “Either way, we will need change,” he said. 
 
 So far, Chris Suprun of Texas is the only Republican elector publicly poised to ditch Trump. Two other GOP electors — Georgia's Baoky Vu and Texas' Art Sisneros — have signaled their discomfort with him, but they've long said they planned to resign rather than show up to vote against Trump when the electors gather in their states. 
 
 The anti-Trump movement has already generated the first federal court decision to hint that electors might be the free agents Hamilton described, rather than the rubber stamps they’ve become over time. That’s an unnerving prospect for Democratic and Republican party leaders who are reluctant to cede control over a vote of such consequence. 
 
 And it’s a threat to the 29 state laws across the country that force electors to support the winner of their statewide popular vote. Many of those laws are decades old, but they’ve never been enforced or tested in court until now. 
 
 That, rather than the ouster of Trump, may be the enduring legacy of the anti-Trump campaign. 
 
 “Even one faithless elector is one too many,” said Nelson, of Texas A&M. “What we don’t want to happen is for this to become a routine where a candidate wins on Election Day and the electors are subject to massive lobbying to get them to change their positions.” 
 
 Some Republicans see a larger Democratic strategy at work: to eliminate the Electoral College system altogether because it is poised to hand the presidency to the GOP for the second time in 16 years, despite Democratic wins in the national popular vote. 
 
 “This latest attempt by [Democrats] on electors is proof they are playing a longer term game of ending the Electoral College,” said a national GOP official involved in tracking electoral votes to ensure loyalty to Trump. 
 
 Some Democratic electors have freely admitted that while their primary goal is to block Trump’s election, they’d be pleased if they undermined the Electoral College along the way. 
 
 But GOP strategist Saul Anuzis — a former Michigan GOP state chairman and an advocate for efforts to elect the president by national popular vote — said there’s a likelier way for those electors to persuade Americans to ditch the Electoral College: by honoring the votes cast in their state. Anuzis says he expects very few electors on either side of the aisle to ditch their candidate, which would remind Americans that the college is, in fact, a rubber stamp — not a deliberative body, as Hamilton intended. 
 
 “People are going to realize that nothing really changed,” he said. “The most important aspect of this is going to be educational. People will be more aware of how the Electoral College actually works and what it does — and that it is a rubber stamp. If they believe there needs to be a better way to do this, that allows us to make our point.” 
 
 Anuzis and Wilson, the One Nation, One Vote founder, are urging states to adopt a plan to award their electors to the winner of the national popular vote. The compact has already passed in 10 states and Washington, D.C., which include a total of 165 electoral votes. But it won’t take effect until enough states pass it to award the presidency to the winner of the national popular vote. Achieving that would require states that carry a further 105 electoral votes to sign onto the effort. 
 
 Several members of Congress are also agitating for changes. Sen. Barbara Boxer has introduced legislation to amend the Constitution and remove the Electoral College. But such an effort would require a massive, years-long campaign that requires two-thirds approval in Congress and the backing of 38 states. 
 
 
 
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 WASHINGTON (AP) — And you thought Election Day was in November. 
 
 Electors are set to gather in every state on Monday to formally elect Donald Trump president even as anti-Trump forces try one last time to deny him the White House. 
 
 Protests are planned for state capitals, but they are unlikely to persuade the Electoral College to dump Trump. An Associated Press survey of electors found very little appetite to vote for alternative candidates. 
 
 Republican electors say they have been deluged with emails, phone calls and letters urging them not to support Trump. Many of the emails are part of coordinated campaigns. 
 
 "The letters are actually quite sad," said Lee Green, a Republican elector from North Carolina. "They are generally freaked out. They honestly believe the propaganda. They believe our nation is being taken over by a dark and malevolent force." 
 
 Wirt A. Yerger Jr., a Republican elector in Mississippi, said, "I have gotten several thousand emails asking me not to vote for Trump. I threw them all away." 
 
 A joint session of Congress is scheduled for Jan. 6 to certify the results of the Electoral College vote, with Vice President Joe Biden presiding as president of the Senate. Once the result is certified, the winner — likely Trump — will be sworn in on Jan. 20. 
 
 The Electoral College was devised at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. It was a compromise between those who wanted popular elections for president and those who wanted no public input. 
 
 The Electoral College has 538 members, with the number allocated to each state based on how many representatives it has in the House plus one for each senator. The District of Columbia gets three, despite the fact that the home to Congress has no vote in Congress. 
 
 To be elected president, the winner must get at least half plus one — or 270 electoral votes. Most states give all their electoral votes to whichever candidate wins that state's popular vote. Maine and Nebraska award them by congressional district. 
 
 The AP tried to reach all of the electors and interviewed more than 330 of them, finding widespread aggravation among Democrats with the electoral process, but little expectation Trump would be derailed. 
 
 Some Democrats have argued that the Electoral College is undemocratic because it gives more weight to less populated states. That is how Hillary Clinton, who got more than 2.6 million more votes nationwide, lost the election to Trump. Some have also tried to dissuade Trump voters by arguing that he is unsuited to the job. Others cite the CIA's assessment that Russia engaged in computer hacking to sway the election in favor of the Republican. 
 
 But despite the national group therapy session being conducted by some Democrats, only one Republican elector told the AP that he will not vote for Trump. 
 
 There is no constitutional provision or federal law that requires electors to vote for the candidate who won their state. Some states require their electors to vote for the winning candidate, either by law or through signed pledges. But no elector has ever been prosecuted for failing to vote as pledged, according to the National Archives. 
 
 Those laws are rarely tested. More than 99 percent of electors through U.S. history have voted for the candidate who won their state. 
 
 Electors are selected by state parties, and so are often insiders who can be trusted to vote for the party's candidate. Many Republican electors said they feel duty-bound to honor their pledge to vote for the candidate who won their state, regardless of how they feel about Trump. 
 
 Still, some anti-Trump activists have been getting creative in trying to persuade electors to dump Trump. 
 
 In addition to thousands of emails, Republican elector Charlie Buckels of Louisiana said he received a FedEx package with a 50-page document that the sender said "had absolute proof that the Russians hacked the elections." 
 
 "From the tenor of these emails, you would think these people are curled up in a corner in a fetal position with a thumb in their mouth," Buckels said. 
 
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 Associated Press writers Hope Yen in Washington, Emily Wagster Pettus in Jackson, Mississippi, and Melinda Deslatte in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, contributed to this report. 
 
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 Online: 
 
 AP interactive on election results: http://interactives.ap.org/2016/road-to-270/ 
 
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 Follow Stephen Ohlemacher on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/stephenatap ||||| There's no way the Electoral College will wrest the presidency away from Donald Trump when electors meet in 50 state capitals on Monday. 
 
 That’s according to The POLITICO Caucus — a panel of activists, operatives and strategists in 11 key battleground states. 
 
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 Of the more than 160 Republican and Democratic insiders surveyed last week, only one thought it was likely that 37 or more GOP electors would defect to deny Trump a majority. 
 
 Trump’s status as president-elect isn’t certified until Monday, when electors will meet across the nation to cast their ballots officially. If electors vote according to their state tallies, Trump will earn 306 electoral votes, to 232 for Hillary Clinton. 
 
 But Trump’s critics have cited a number of reasons for electors to think twice about backing the president-elect, even if Trump won more votes in their states: Trump finished more than 2 percentage points behind Clinton in the national popular vote; his unprecedented, potential financial conflicts; and U.S. intelligence judgments that Russian state-sponsored hackers stole Democratic Party communications in order to help Trump win. 
 
 More than 70 percent of insiders said the number of so-called “faithless electors” will be fewer than 10. 
 
 That is in keeping with a Republican National Committee whip count that reported just one of the 306 GOP electors was planning to cast a vote against Trump. 
 
 A group of Democratic electors hoping to persuade their Republican counterparts to vote against Trump are urging them to unite behind a consensus GOP candidate. Most of these Democrats have said they will not cast their votes for Hillary Clinton, but their efforts are highly unlikely to succeed and it's unclear how many of them will follow through. 
 
 “There is enough dissatisfaction with Trump for there to be defectors, but I can't see it being serious,” said an Ohio Republican — who, like all insiders, completed the survey anonymously. “The voters spoke and the electors will largely honor their voices.” 
 
 “This whole notion of a faithless Electoral College is an anti-Trump fantasy,” an Iowa Republican added. “That said, one or two could vote against Trump and for Hillary or someone else. As uncomfortable as I am with a Trump presidency, I'd be far more uncomfortable with the precedent of a wild Electoral College that simply dumps 200-plus years of history and decides on their own to invalidate the voters' will.” 
 
 One Wisconsin Republican cited online videos aimed at persuading GOP electors to reconsider before casting their ballots. 
 
 “It is complete nonsense to think that Republicans electors will vacate their support for President-elect Trump because of bunch of liberal actors run a silly commercial asking them to change their vote,” said the Republican. “Get over it!” 
 
 “Having been an elector myself, I know that most are hard-core supporters,” added a Virginia Democrat. “Any defector has to face the people at home, and this time the other side is very much armed.” 
 
 But there is a small segment of insiders, mostly Democrats, who believe the electors should work to overturn Trump’s victory. Trump carried seven of the 11 battleground states — including his narrow but decisive victories in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. 
 
 “We are in uncharted, unprecedented territory,” a New Hampshire Democrat said. “A president-elect who lost the popular vote by over two percentage points utilized Russian influence to get elected. He also will be in violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution on the first minute of office. He also may be getting us into a war with China. Finally, we have no knowledge of what debts or entanglements he has towards Russia or other nations' oligarchs. In theory, I don't believe electors should ever deviate from what their state's results dictate. In reality, our country is on the precipice of losing its democracy. This is not hyperbole. Our electors must save us from this, whether by choosing Hillary or some Republican who does not violate so many norms.” 
 
 In a choose-your-own-adventure universe in which the Electoral College spurns Trump, it might require Clinton electors to join with Republicans to find an alternative candidate. But only 26 percent of Democratic insiders want the party’s 232 electors to shun Clinton and back a different challenger — 74 percent do not. 
 
 “It isn't worth the effort. It sucks. We lost,” said a Florida Democrat. “Sure, Trump is entirely unqualified. Yes, his transition has been a disaster. And of course, the Russians, the FBI, the B.S. Benghazi Committee and the fake news played a huge role in the outcome. But we need to stop giving false hope and start rebuilding the Democratic Party.” 
 
 The most intense partisan disagreement among insiders was on the question of whether hackers affiliated with Russia’s government actively worked to boost Trump. Democrats were nearly unanimous: 97 percent agree that the Russians helped Trump win. 
 
 “This isn't even debatable anymore,” a Florida Democrat said. “I’ll freely acknowledge the Clinton operation did plenty to contribute to their own demise, but Trump's buddy Vladimir provided the final bullet.” 
 
 But only 35 percent of Republicans agreed, with 65 percent saying they don’t think the Russians were involved in an effort to get Trump elected. 
 
 “Other campaigns also came under repeated cyber attacks this summer. They saw it, stopped it, and changed [their] network,” an Iowa Republican said. “The fact that the DNC and Team Hillary were too damn dumb or slow to foil the attacks is no one's fault but their own.” 
 
 “Liberals need to undermine the legitimacy of a GOP victory,” added an Ohio Republican. “They did it from the start with George W. Bush, and this is their tactic to never accept Trump as legitimate.” 
 
 Some Republicans, however, expressed frustration with members of their own party for refusing to accept the apparent conclusions of U.S. intelligence officials. 
 
 “Republicans who try to spin this as sour grapes are doing a disservice to the Republic,” a New Hampshire Republican said. “This wasn't an attack on a single candidate; it was an attack on democracy intended to undermine the credibility of freedom and constitutional democracies.” 
 
 These are the members of The POLITICO Caucus, not all of whom participated in this survey: 
 
 Colorado: Ryan Call, Laura Carno, Matt Chandler, Will Coyne, Adam Eichberg, Mark Ferrandino, Cole Finegan, Michael Fortney, Andrew Freedman, Ted Harvey, Craig Hughes, Owen Loftus, Pete Maysmith, Frank McNulty, Karen Middleton, Christopher Murray, BJ Nikkel, Josh Penry, Rick Ridder, Alan Salazar, Janice Sinden, Pat Steadman, Pat Waak, Steve Welchert, Taylor West, Roxane White, Rob Witwer 
 
 Florida: Fernand Amandi, Scott Arceneaux, JP Austin, Tim Baker, Dennis K. Baxley, Slater Bayliss, Dave Beattie, Wayne Bertsch, Ron Book, Pamela Burch Fort, Jose Calderon, Kevin Cate, Kelly Cohen, Gus Corbella, Brian Crowley, Elizabeth Cuevas-Neunder, Justin Day, Judith Diaz, Nelson Diaz, John Dowless, Ryan Duffy, Jessica Ehrlich, Joe Falk, Alia Faraj-Johnson, Mark Ferrulo, Damien Filer, Marty Fiorentino, Rich Heffley, Nick Iarossi, David Johnson, Eric Johnson, Marian Johnson, Eric Jotkoff, Chris Korge, Jackie Lee, Susan MacManus, Beth Matuga, Fred Menachem, Jon Mills, Joe Mobley, Ben Pollara, Andrea Reilly, Steve Schale, April Schiff, Max Steele, Roger Stone, Richard Swann, Kevin Sweeny, Christian Ulvert, Steve Vancore, Ashley Walker, Andrew Weinstein, Andrew Wiggins, Ryan Wiggins, Rick Wilson 
 
 Iowa: Tim Albrecht, Brad Anderson, Rob Barron, Jeff Boeyink, Bonnie Campbell, Dave Caris, Sam Clovis, Jerry Crawford, Sara Craig, John Davis, Steve Deace, John Deeth, Derek Eadon, Ed Failor Jr., Karen Fesler, David Fischer, Ben Foecke, Doug Gross, Steve Grubbs, Tim Hagle, Bob Haus, Joe Henry, Drew Ivers, Jill June, Lori Jungling, Jeff Kaufmann, Brian Kennedy, Jake Ketzner, David Kochel, Chris Larimer, Chuck Larson, Jill Latham, Jeff Link, Dave Loebsack, Mark Lucas, Liz Mathis, Jan Michelson, Chad Olsen, David Oman, Matt Paul, Marlys Popma, Troy Price, Christopher Rants, Kim Reem, Craig Robinson, Sam Roecker, David Roederer, Nick Ryan, Tamara Scott, Joni Scotter, Karen Slifka, John Smith, AJ Spiker, Norm Sterzenbach, John Stineman, Matt Strawn, Charlie Szold, Phil Valenziano, Jessica Vanden Berg, Nate Willems, Eric Woolson, Grant Young 
 
 Michigan: Jill Alper, Saul Anuzis, Andrea Bitely, Lori Carpentier, Howard Edelson, Jordan Gehrke, Steve Hood, Darwin Jiles Jr., Joe Lehman, Dennis Lennox, Katie Packer, Ronna Romney McDaniel, John Truscott, Stephanie White, John Yob 
 
 Nevada: Mac Abrams, Greg Bailor, Barbara Buckley, Yvanna Cancela, Bob Cavazos, Linda Cavazos, Jim DeGraffenreid, Andrew Diss, Peter Ernaut, Ryan Erwin, Chip Evans, Jay Gerstema, Oscar Goodman, Ryan Hamilton, Dan Hart, Pat Hickey, Zach Hudson, Jeremy Hughes, Megan Jones, Lindsey Jydstrup, Adam Khan, Peter Koltak, Roberta Lange, Sam Liberman, Laura Martin, Michael McDonald, Chuck Muth, Erven Nelson, Kristen Orthman, Neal Patel, Nick Phillips, Jon Ralston, Andres Ramires, Emmy Ruiz, Scott Scheid, Mike Slanker, James Smack, Paul Smith, Jack St. Martin, Mari St. Martin, Daniel Stewart, Brendan Summers, Riley Sutton, Robert Uithoven, Michelle White, Ed Williams, Heidi Wixom 
 
 New Hampshire: Charlie Arlinghaus, Arnie Arnesen, Patrick Arnold, Rich Ashooh, Dean Barker, Juliana Bergeron, D.J. Bettencourt, Michael Biundo, Ray Buckley, Peter Burling, Jamie Burnett, Debby Butler, Dave Carney, Jackie Cilley, Catherine Corkery, Fergus Cullen, Lou D’Allesandro, James Demers, Mike Dennehy, Sean Downey, Steve Duprey, JoAnn Fenton, Jennifer Frizzell, Martha Fuller Clark, Amanda Grady Sexton, Jack Heath, Gary Hirshberg, Jennifer Horn, Peter Kavanaugh, Joe Keefe, Rich Killion, Harrell Kirstein, Sylvia Larsen, Joel Maiola, Kate Malloy Corriveau, Maureen Manning, Steve Marchand, Tory Mazzola, Jim Merrill, Jayne Millerick, Claira Monier, Greg Moore, Matt Mowers, Terie Norelli, Chris Pappas, Liz Purdy, Tom Rath, Colin Reed, Jim Rubens, Andy Sanborn, Dante Scala, William Shaheen, Stefany Shaheen, Carol Shea-Porter, Terry Shumaker, Andy Smith, Craig Stevens, Kathy Sullivan, Chris Sununu, James Sununu, Jay Surdukowski, Donna Sytek, Kari Thurman, Colin Van Ostern, Deb Vanderbeek, Mike Vlacich, Ryan Williams 
 
 North Carolina: Don Davis, Francis X. De Luca, Anita Earls, Jonathan Felts, Tami L. Fitzgerald, Dylan Frick, Taylor Griffin, Robin Hayes, Morgan Jackson, Patsy Keever, Theresa Kostrzewa, Michael Luethy, Ray Martin, Thomas Mills, Melissa L. Reed, Chris Sgro, Paul Shumaker, Dee Stewart, Brad Thompson, Bruce Thompson, Charlie Wallin, Doug Wilson 
 
 Ohio: Jerry Austin, Greg Beswick, Matt Borges, Erica Bruton, Tim Burke, Janet Carson, Jai Chabria, Martha Clark, Bob Clegg, Damareo Cooper, Jo Ann Davidson, Michael Dawson, Bill DeMora, Cindy Demse, Kathy Dicristofaro, Katie Eagan, Michael Gonidakis, Wes Goodman, Joe Hallett, Ian James, Melissa Klide Hedden, David Leland, Nick Martin, Rhine McLin, David Pepper, Molly Shack, Mark R. Weaver 
 
 Pennsylvania: Chris Borick, Larry Ceisler, Valentino DiGiorgio, Jason Ercole, Dan Fee, Charlie Gerow, Marcel Groen, Leslie Gromis Baker, Mark Harris, Nan McLaughlin, Aubrey Montgomery, Christopher Nicholas, Nachama Soloveichik, David Sosar, Todd Stephens, Doc Sweitzer, David Thornburgh, Ray Zaborney 
 
 Virginia: Ray Allen, Sandra Brandt, Marc K. Broklawski, Patsy Brown, Janet Carver, John Cosgrove, Brian Coy, Doris Crouse-Mays, Tom Davis, Julie Dime, Abbi Easter, Mike Farris, John Findlay, Joe Fitzgerald, Sean Harrison, Margo Horner, Robert Hurt, Gaylene Kanoyton, Chris LaCivita, Sue Langley, Frank Leone, Robert G. Marshall, Tucker Martin, Ed Matricardi, Susan J. Rowland, Peter Snyder, Susan Swecker, Jo Thoburn 
 
 Wisconsin: Meg Andrietsch, Mary Arnold, Kevin Barthel, Mike Basford, Rebecca Bonesteel, Barry Burden, Terri Burl, Jim Camery, Patrick Guarasci, Robert Hansen, Gary Hawley, Marian Krumberger, Emily Nehring, Jason Rae, Brandon Scholz, John Zapfel 
 
 Kristen Hayford contributed to this report.
– Donald Trump will be officially elected president of the United States on Monday unless the Electoral College does something unprecedented—and leaves him "unpresidented." Some 538 electors will meet across the country and 306 of them are supposed to vote for Trump, reflecting the election outcomes in their states, though there has been a strong movement calling for them to deny Trump the presidency—and for the electors supposed to vote for Hillary Clinton to instead vote for a more acceptable Republican. It would take 38 GOP rebels to keep Trump out of the White House, which is an outcome seen as extremely unlikely. Most of the voting will take place in state capitols, where protests are expected. A round-up of coverage: Republican electors say they have received thousands of letters and emails pleading with them to vote against Trump, the AP reports. "The letters are actually quite sad," says Lee Green, a Republican elector from North Carolina. "They are generally freaked out. They honestly believe the propaganda. They believe our nation is being taken over by a dark and malevolent force." Insiders in battleground states tell Politico that while it will be interesting to see how many electors decide to defy election results, there is almost no chance it will change the final outcome. Most of the 160 Republicans and Democrats surveyed believe there will be 10 or fewer faithless electors; just one thought there would be more than 37. The New York Times takes a look at how the electoral college works, and at whether faithless electors will be punished if they vote against the election results. The Times notes that electors can be party officials or people with a connection to a candidate: Bill Clinton is among this year's New York electors. NPR looks at what happens next: The states submit a Certificate of Vote to the Federal Register, listing the votes for president and vice president. The votes will be tallied at a Jan. 6 joint session of Congress, which will be presided over by Joe Biden. When a candidate gets to 270 votes, they will be declared the next president—and if that candidate isn't Trump, expect chaos. If no one gets a majority, choosing a president will be up to the House of Representatives. While the vote won't be officially counted until Jan. 6, Mic reports that we should know the outcome before then: It notes the AP produced the results at 6pm ET on voting day in 2012 (though that year was a little "less contentious"), and that the Office of the Federal Register website will publish verified votes as they're received. Newser incorrectly originally reported that the results wouldn't be known until 2017; the distinction is that the "official" results come then. Politico reports that while rogue electors may not change the outcome, there may be enough of them to change the Electoral College system. The "Hamilton electors," who argue that voting with their conscience is what the Founding Fathers had in mind, could cause laws in 29 states banning faithless electors to be tested, or could add weight to calls for the system to be replaced with one where the winner of the popular votes becomes president. Here's why this 9/11 firefighter and Texas elector isn't voting for Trump.