Not necessarily so. The States can punish or replace faithless Electors, but a punishment doesn’t necessarily replace a faithless vote with a faithful one. In

Not necessarily so. The States can punish or replace faithless Electors, but a punishment doesn’t necessarily replace a faithless vote with a faithful one. In theory, Trump received 306 EC votes in 2016 to Clinton’s 232[1]. In reality it was 304 for Trump, 227 for Clinton, 3 for Colin Powell, 1 for Bernie Sanders, 1 for John Kasich, 1 for Ron Paul, 1 for Faith Spotted Eagle[2]. There were 3 others that voted faithlessly but those votes were invalidated by their State’s, one of them changed his vote back to who he pledged for, and the others were replaced with alternates. Some faithless votes on the Vice Presidential vote as well, but refer back to [2] for those. [1] https://www.270towin.com/maps/2016-actual-electoral-map https://www.270towin.com/maps/2016-actual-electoral-map [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_electors_in_the_2016_United_States_presidential_election#Validated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_electors_in_the_2016...