These petitions spreading to urge "electors" to change their electoral college votes from Trump to Clinton in order to reflect the popular vote are not entirely baseless. Since 1968 there have been 6 examples of electors changing their votes for a variety of reasons. Realizing, entirely, that this is unlikely to happen, the act of signing a petition like Change.org's does help to magnify the issues surrounding the "popular" vs. "electoral" outcome. Still, should electors in Michigan and Wisconsin, states with thin margins in Trump's favor, see the value of switching... Well, we can dream.
https://www.change.org/p/electoral-college-electors-electoral-college-make-hillary-clinton-president-on-december-19?recruiter=1855019&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_page&utm_term=mob-xs-distancing-custom_msg
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