{"id":161,"date":"2016-11-21T03:40:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T03:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.42electorstogo.com\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2016-11-21T03:40:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T03:40:43","slug":"usa-today","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewordpressway.com\/42electorstogo\/electoral-college\/usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center; padding: 40px;\">\n<span style=\"font-weight:bold; font-size: 20px;\">Could the Electoral College elect Hillary Clinton instead of Donald Trump?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Change.org petition, now signed by more than 4.3 million people, encourages members of the Electoral College to cast their votes for Hillary Clinton when the college meets on Dec. 19. The petition argues that Donald Trump is \u201cunfit to serve\u201d and that \u201cSecretary Clinton WON THE POPULAR VOTE and should be President.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they all vote the way their states voted, Donald Trump will win,\u201d the petition states. \u201cHowever, they can vote for Hillary Clinton if they choose. Even in states where that is not allowed, their vote would still be counted, they would simply pay a small fine \u2013 which we can be sure Clinton supporters will be glad to pay! We are calling on the Electors to ignore their states\u2019 votes and cast their ballots for Secretary Clinton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A number of our readers reached out to us by phone and email and asked if it was true that members of the Electoral College are not bound to vote for the candidate who won a majority of votes in their state, and specifically whether the Electoral College could actually give the presidency to Clinton over Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s back up a bit and explain how the Electoral College works, and why \u2014 an issue we addressed in 2008 in an article that has gotten a lot of views recently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2016\/2016\/11\/16\/fact-check-could-electoral-college-elect-hillary-clinton-instead-donald-trump\/93951818\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.42electorstogo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/electoralcollege-300x169.png\" alt=\"electoralcollege\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewordpressway.com\/42electorstogo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/electoralcollege-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/thewordpressway.com\/42electorstogo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/electoralcollege.png 548w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could the Electoral College elect Hillary Clinton instead of Donald Trump? A Change.org petition, now signed by more than 4.3 million people, encourages members of the Electoral College to cast their votes for Hillary Clinton when the college meets on Dec. 19. The petition argues that Donald Trump is \u201cunfit &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-161","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P89peG-2B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordpressway.com\/42electorstogo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordpressway.com\/42electorstogo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordpressway.com\/42electorstogo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordpressway.com\/42electorstogo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordpressway.com\/42electorstogo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewordpressway.com\/42electorstogo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/thewordpressway.com\/42electorstogo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions\/165"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordpressway.com\/42electorstogo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordpressway.com\/42electorstogo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}