For Anti - Trump supporters , there is still some glimmer of hope that president- elect Donald Trump won ’t be sworn in as president of the United States come January 2017 due to today’s Electoral College votes .
In the recently concluded U . S Presidential election , Trump won the electoral college votes , defeating Clinton in major states , while Clinton won the popular votes , amassing over 2 million votes than her rival.
There ’s a possibility , though slim, that Trump won’t be president if electors in the elctoral college vote decide to vote against the victor and vote against their states ’ results .
Read the interesting article by CNN .com below…
The 538 members of the Electoral College are set on Monday to make President- elect Donald Trump ’s victory official .
In all 50 state capitals and the District of Columbia , electors — chosen by the state parties of the candidate who carried their state , Trump or Hillary Clinton — will meet to cast their ballots . The gatherings will remove the last bit of drama from 2016 ’s unprecedented election season — and post- election efforts to persuade Republican electors to vote against Trump, in some cases in violation of state laws requiring electors to support the victor .
Heightening the tension in recent weeks : Clinton actually won the popular vote by about 3 million — making Trump the worst - performing winner in the popular vote since 1876 .
Trump’ s victory is not , as he has described it , a landslide . He is expected to garner just 56. 9% of the electoral vote , assuming all electors vote according to their states ’ results . That will give Trump the 44 th -largest share of the electoral vote out of 54 presidential elections since the modern system started in 1804 .
It ’s a better performance , though , than President George W. Bush ’s razor - tight victory in 2000 and slightly larger win in 2004 .
Bush , too , lost the popular vote — but Trump lost by a larger margin. He will become the worst- performing president in the popular vote relative to his closest rival aside from Rutherford B . Hayes in 1876 and John Quincy Adams in 1824 , an election that featured four candidates and was decided by the House of Representatives .
Clinton won 48 . 2% of the vote to Trump’ s 46.2 % — a lead of more than 2 .8 million votes and more than 2 % as of Friday , with that lead expected to grow as the final ballots are tallied .
There ’s no national meeting of the Electoral College. Instead , electors gather in each state — usually in the Capitol .
Under federal law , though , electors must gather on December 19 . And each elector must sign six copies certifying their votes for president and vice president.
Two ballots go to the National Archives . One goes to the president of the Senate . Two go to their state ’ s chief elections officer . And one goes to a local judge .
After Monday’ s votes , there is still one last step : On
January 6 , Congress has to officially count the electoral votes . Vice President Joe Biden will preside over the count.
Lawmakers can technically object — in writing , with objections signed by at least one House and one Senate member — to individual electoral votes or entire states ’ results . If the House and Senate support that objection , the vote or votes in question are thrown out . But that has never happened .
After the votes are counted , the results are final , and Trump is officially set for his inauguration at noon on
January 20 .
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