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They’d have to flip 37 electors or flip a bunch plus tie up a state in recount.

Via Washington Post:

When Joyce Haas noticed late last month that her mailbox was stuffed fuller than usual, she chalked it up to the arrival of the holiday season.

“I thought okay, it’s Christmas card time!” recalled Haas, 70, one of 538 electors from across the country who will officially pick the next president later this month.

But this was no flood of season’s greetings. It was the start of what she said has been a steady stream of 150 to 200 letters, postcards and handwritten notes urging her to disregard Donald Trump’s win in her home state of Pennsylvania and vote for someone else. She said she has received thousands more messages via email.

“To me, it has been a form of harassment,” said Haas, a Republican fully committed to voting for Trump.

Many other electors in states won by the president-elect have experienced similar pressure, with a constellation of anti-Trump activists, organized groups and rogue electors waging an urgent, long-shot attempt to prevent Trump from taking office. A Republican elector from Texas announced this week that he will not vote for Trump.

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