Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Mischief by Democratic Electors Needs to Stop

They may be mad about Trump but their actions are undemocratic.

December 6, 2016 at 8:15 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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The electors in the Electoral College are scheduled to vote on Dec. 19. Normally, this is a formality. Electors were chosen by the voters on Nov. 8, and they do as they are chosen to do. But this time we're getting a little unfortunate drama.

Some Democratic electors are trying to hatch a dead-on-arrival plot to flip the election by switching their votes to Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich and inviting Republican electors to join them. One Republican elector from Texas has announced he plans to vote for Kasich.