The whole point of the electoral college was to act as a check on the people, who have proven this year that they cannot be trusted in terms of choosing a president. If the founders didn't want the electors to be free to be faithless, they would have made the EC simply a numerical count, not an actual group of people. We need to respect the will of the founders, take all faithless elector laws off the books, and let the electors live up to their real job - acting as a check on a populace filled with low-information voters.
That's not up to you (or anyone else) to decide. ''The people have spoken'' and Trump has won states with a total of 306 electoral votes. Period.
That's the recommendation of the people yes, but the founders intention was that the electors should be able to reject that recommendation. For as long as we decide as a society to keep using the EC, we need to respect that intention.
This is wrong on so many levels.
The intent of the EC - and our Republic in general - is not to be "a check on the people", but instead a check on the
Federal Government. So that a few high populous states (really just a few high populous cities) don't have total control of our nation's policies.
If the roles were reversed, and the electors 'in good conscience' rejected
your winning candidate because 'the people cannot be trusted', you'd be screaming about fascism and the end of our country (and rightly so).
