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GWU LAWPROF JOHN BANZHAF: Already One Rogue Elector; But Many More Are Suddenly Possible.

Since at least one elector has already publicly announced that he will not vote for the candidate he is pledged to, the door is open wide for other rogue electors – sometimes called “faithless electors” – to likewise not only break their pledges, but perhaps for the first time in history to actually deny the election to the candidate with the most electoral votes. . . .

In a close election, only a few electors who do not cast their electoral votes as they had pledged can change the outcome of the election, either by putting the candidate with a not quite enough electoral votes over the top, or perhaps even by throwing the presidential election into the House of Representatives.

Although there have been more than 150 instances in the past where electors changed their votes, in none has the outcome of the presidential election been fundamentally altered.

It’s 2016 man, anything can happen.

UPDATE: Jim Bennett emails: “I prefer to call then “Faithful to the Founders’ intent.”. I suspect most of the founders would have agreed that if the major candidates lacked republican virtue, it would be the electors’ duty to choose somebody else who did.”

SALENA ZITO: Why America Can’t Make Up Its Mind.

She’s a home-care nurse. He’s a mechanic. They like small-town life. “Even though it’s sometimes boring, it was a great way to grow up,” Megan said, “and we want the same things for our sons.”

The couple voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. “We really believed in his message . . . really believed he would be the change agent he promised,” said A.J.

Neither would vote for him again. “He really was very disappointing, especially on the health-care bill,” Megan said. “He promised we could keep our doctors, he promised our premiums would not skyrocket, he promised our health care would be better. None of that was true.”

Now, she’ll vote for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson.

A.J. will vote for Trump.

“I wonder if we’ll just continue to winnow away [until] there are only the very rich and the very poor,” said Megan.

It’s called being fundamentally transformed.