A lot of what needs to be done is making sure that the Harris win is large enough that you can’t easily claim that a handful of ballots should be tossed and change the outcome. That means:
- Check your voter registration — part of the Republican strategy has long been invalidating registrations so people can’t vote
- Volunteer — nothing in the world quite like talking to people.
- Donate — money is used for everything from ads to voter turnout operations
- Organize; be prepared to turn out with others in your community to actively object to any effort to ignore your votes
I want to say every republican president since W in 2004 (and I think even that is somewhat questionable?) has lost the popular vote and only won because of gerrymandering and the electoral college. We already are electing presidents against the will of the majority.
As for electors going rogue? Welcome to the US government (and a shocking other number of governments but…) where basically every bit of our constitution depends on good faith actors.
When you think about it, democracy at it’s core depends on good faith actors. Democracy IS good faith
That’s not entirely true. Many states make it a crime for electors not to vote for the state’s winner.
After the fact, but it doesn’t prevent them from doing it in the first place. The federal government doesn’t care, they’re just handed the electoral votes from the states and go with it.
W lost the popular vote in 2000 but won it in 2004.
Gerrymandering doesn’t apply to statewide races like the electoral college.
However it does affect state legislatures and they’re the ones that make election laws.