選舉人團里的反川普力量面臨巨大挑戰
一個多月前，唐納德?川普擊敗希拉里?克林頓，結束了一場競爭激烈的總統選戰。
It's been over a month since Donald Trump pulled off an upset victory over Hillary Clinton, bringing an end to one of the most contentious presidential campaigns in U.S. history.
The result won't be official until Monday, when the 538 members of the Electoral College meet at statehouses across the country to cast their votes -- the ones that will actually decide the next president.
The Electoral College serves as a formality and usually receives little attention. But this year, there is a last-ditch effort to use the Electoral College to deny Trump the presidency.
It's a long shot, but the electoral revolt is injecting one last bit of uncertainty into an election that has been one of the most uNPRedictable ever.
The drive is being encouraged by a group called the Hamilton Electors, named after Alexander Hamilton, a U.S. founding father who was one of the Electoral College's main architects. Hamilton and the other founding fathers devised the Electoral College as a compromise between those who wanted a direct presidential election and those who wanted Congress to choose the president.
The system was also meant to serve as a safeguard against those unfit for the presidency, a point emphasized by the Hamilton Electors.
If Trump gets all the electoral votes from the states where he won the popular vote, he will have 306 electoral votes, well over the 270 needed for a simple majority. That means for the electoral revolt to succeed, 37 Republicans who are scheduled to vote for Trump would have to abandon him. So far, only one Republican elector has publicly pledged to do so.
然而，美國各州538個選舉團成員下周一投票后，這一大選結果才算正式生效，也就是說，這些選舉人才能最后決定誰入主白宮。
美國的選舉人團投票基本上是走過場，通常沒有多少人會關注。但是今年大不相同，反川普勢力仍試圖利用選舉人團投票這一程序來扭轉大選結果，阻止川普成為總統。
雖然可能性不大，但選舉人團的投票還是給今年本已難以預測的選舉又注入了新的變數。
目前，一個名叫漢密爾頓選舉人團的組織正在鼓動選舉人不按照大選結果投票。漢密爾頓是美國國父之一，也是選舉人團制度的主要設計者。漢密爾頓和其他國父們設計的選舉人團制度是總統直接選舉和國會選擇總統之間的一個妥協方案。
漢密爾頓選舉人團組織強調，這個制度還有一個意義，那就是防止不適合當總統的人坐上總統寶座。
如果川普得到所有他獲勝的那些州的選舉人票，那么他應該得到306張選舉人票，遠超過成為總統需要的270張。要改變選舉結果，就必須有37個本該投票給川普的共和黨選舉人放棄川普。到目前為止只有一個人公開表示要這樣做。
一個多月前，唐納德?川普擊敗希拉里?克林頓，結束了一場競爭激烈的總統選戰。
It's been over a month since Donald Trump pulled off an upset victory over Hillary Clinton, bringing an end to one of the most contentious presidential campaigns in U.S. history.
The result won't be official until Monday, when the 538 members of the Electoral College meet at statehouses across the country to cast their votes -- the ones that will actually decide the next president.
The Electoral College serves as a formality and usually receives little attention. But this year, there is a last-ditch effort to use the Electoral College to deny Trump the presidency.
It's a long shot, but the electoral revolt is injecting one last bit of uncertainty into an election that has been one of the most uNPRedictable ever.
The drive is being encouraged by a group called the Hamilton Electors, named after Alexander Hamilton, a U.S. founding father who was one of the Electoral College's main architects. Hamilton and the other founding fathers devised the Electoral College as a compromise between those who wanted a direct presidential election and those who wanted Congress to choose the president.
The system was also meant to serve as a safeguard against those unfit for the presidency, a point emphasized by the Hamilton Electors.
If Trump gets all the electoral votes from the states where he won the popular vote, he will have 306 electoral votes, well over the 270 needed for a simple majority. That means for the electoral revolt to succeed, 37 Republicans who are scheduled to vote for Trump would have to abandon him. So far, only one Republican elector has publicly pledged to do so.
然而，美國各州538個選舉團成員下周一投票后，這一大選結果才算正式生效，也就是說，這些選舉人才能最后決定誰入主白宮。
美國的選舉人團投票基本上是走過場，通常沒有多少人會關注。但是今年大不相同，反川普勢力仍試圖利用選舉人團投票這一程序來扭轉大選結果，阻止川普成為總統。
雖然可能性不大，但選舉人團的投票還是給今年本已難以預測的選舉又注入了新的變數。
目前，一個名叫漢密爾頓選舉人團的組織正在鼓動選舉人不按照大選結果投票。漢密爾頓是美國國父之一，也是選舉人團制度的主要設計者。漢密爾頓和其他國父們設計的選舉人團制度是總統直接選舉和國會選擇總統之間的一個妥協方案。
漢密爾頓選舉人團組織強調，這個制度還有一個意義，那就是防止不適合當總統的人坐上總統寶座。
如果川普得到所有他獲勝的那些州的選舉人票，那么他應該得到306張選舉人票，遠超過成為總統需要的270張。要改變選舉結果，就必須有37個本該投票給川普的共和黨選舉人放棄川普。到目前為止只有一個人公開表示要這樣做。
