Originally in Bustle, by Sunnivie Brydum, 12/05/16
With just two weeks before the Electoral College meets to formally elect the next President of the United States, online chatter about the potential for faithless electors to change the election's outcome has reached a fever pitch. And although it's highly unlikely that enough Republican Party-appointed electors would deny Donald Trump, soon-to-be faithless elector Chris Suprun's op-ed in The New York Times has reignited a faint glimmer of hope.
"I am a Republican presidential elector, one of the 538 people asked to choose officially the president of the United States," the Texas paramedic writes in the opening lines of his New York Times piece, published Monday. He goes on to note that he has already fielded numerous requests "to change my vote based on policy disagreements with Donald J. Trump," but adds that he doesn't consider such differences of opinion to be valid reasons to vote against the wishes of his fellow Texans.