quartz-poker:

Just some clarification for everyone celebrating and everyone reeling from shock over the admittedly momentous election result:

The election is not over.

-“Oh god what are you saying?!”

I’m saying the states got their mandates on who to tell their electors to vote for. The electors, however, have not voted yet. There’s a built-in delay to our system that gives the government time to doublecheck and make sure the election wasn’t rigged, to make sure foreign powers didn’t intervene. There’s a built-in delay to ensure that if a candidate unexpectedly falls ill or does something irredeemably horrible after the popular vote is cast, the Electoral College has a chance to change its mind. In theory, they could still elect Hillary Clinton. Or they could boot Trump and elect Pence outright.  They could even elect Jill Stein or Barry Goldwater or Jeb Bush.

December 19th is when the Electoral College will vote. And even then, that’s not the final day. Congress has to approve the votes in early Janurary after a certification process.

And then, ONLY then, would Donald Trump officially be the next President.

• If you support Trump, hope he can stay on his best behavior for the next five weeks, and hope that the Electoral College doesn’t do something unprecedented like ignore state mandates in favor of the national popular vote.
  
  
• If you support Hillary, well…Five more weeks of Trump being a complete buffoon could still cost him the election. And if somehow that doesn’t happen, there’s still a tiny, unprecedented chance Congress could reject the Electoral College’s results. And then…who knows what would happen. 

-“But those things have never happened before.”

While this is true, the possibility has always been there, and this election is full of unprecedented things. One or two more unprecedented events before somebody gets sworn in isn’t out of the question. 

-”This sounds too good to be true/This sounds like rigging.”

Here’s my source: https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/key-dates.html

Hopefully trumps trial on the 28th will be enough for them to deem him unfit to be president