In the weeks since the 2016 election, one thing has become painfully clear. The involvement of a foreign government in the tampering of the election results has made the desire to block the ascension of the Republican candidate a bipartisan issue. We are not a sovereign, free nation, if either Russia or a fascist faction gets to choose our president instead of clear, informed majority of the people. Some of us are hoping for this issue to be resolved by the flipping of enough Electoral College votes to the Democratic candidate. However, many of us who have been hoping for this outcome since November 8 realize this is a long shot. A lot of unlikely, unprecedented things must occur for the Electoral College to invalidate current the President-elect. Of course, one could argue that a lot of unlikely, unprecedented things happened to get us to where we are now. Let’s look at what has to happen for the electors to save us. Could the Electoral College save us? First at least 37 votes have to be cast for a person other than that state’s winner, causing a mutual loss, or 38 must go to the Democratic ticket, or to another Republican candidate of the electors choosing. In the case of a mutual loss, the House of Representatives chooses the president from among the top three candidates. A similar situation occurs if the electoral college results in a tie, but the House would be free Since the vote for the presidential candidate and

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