Donald Trump is
busy building his Cabinet and planning his agenda, but he isn't really,
officially going to be President quite yet. One of the peculiarities of
American democracy is that it's actually a group of 538 "electors" --
members of the Electoral College -- in this nation of 318 million who actually
pick the president.
They'll do it,
meeting in their respective states, on December 19th. The outcome is a foregone
conclusion, but there is room, however small, for a surprise: an uprising, as
called for by some Democrats and even some Republicans, of "faithless
electors."
None of the
electors are constitutionally bound to follow the will of the people they
represent, and so in this bizarre election (and post-election) season, an
arcane system that was established at the Constitutional Convention of 1787
could -- and this is very unlikely, but could legally -- go rogue and
potentially deny Trump the presidency.
