It was changed to murder by the BGH . strafrecht . dehrr 599562999 . php 3 <| sep |> Abject denial here . Let ' s go through what would happen . Faithless electors throw the election to Clinton and she obtains a majority of electoral votes in December . Mind you the GOP electors from the states that Trump won are lifetime GOP loyalists , but that ' s neither here nor there . The electoral votes are counted in a Joint Session of Congress in January . Via Wikipedia The Twelfth Amendment mandates Congress assemble in joint session to count the electoral votes and declare the winners of the election . The session is ordinarily required to take place on January 6 in the calendar year immediately following the meetings of the presidential electors . The meeting is held at 100 pm in the Chamber of the U . S . House of Representatives . The sitting vice president is expected to preside , but in several cases the President pro tempore of the Senate has chaired the proceedings . The vice president and the Speaker of the House sit at the podium , with the vice president in the seat of the Speaker of the House . Senate pages bring in the two mahogany boxes containing each state ' s certified vote and place them on tables in front of the senators and representatives . Each house appoints two tellers to count the vote normally one member of each political party . Relevant portions of the Certificate of Vote are read for each state , in alphabetical order . Members of Congress can object to any state ' s vote count , provided objection is presented in writing and is signed by at least one member of each house of Congress . An objection supported by at least one senator and one representative will be followed by the suspension of the joint session and by separate debates and votes in each House of Congress after both Houses deliberate on the objection , the joint session is resumed . A state ' s certificate of vote can be rejected only if both Houses of Congress vote to accept the objection . In that case , the votes from the State in question are simply ignored . The Congress is controlled by the GOP with an absolute majority in each chamber . They and along with other Democrats who would wish not create a Civil War would affirm the objections in each house . Those Electoral Votes from the faithless states would be thrown out . No candidate would then have a majority of Electoral votes . Contingent presidential election by HouseThe Twelfth Amendment requires the House of Representatives to immediately go into session to vote for a president if no candidate for president receives a majority of the electoral votes since 1964 , 270 of the 538 electoral votes . In this event , the House of Representatives is limited to choosing from among the three candidates who received the most electoral votes for president . Each state delegation votes en bloc each delegation having a single vote the District of Columbia does not receive a vote . A candidate must receive an absolute majority of state delegation votes i . e . , at present , a minimum of 26 votes in order for that candidate to become the Presidentelect . Additionally , delegations from at least twothirds of all the states must be present for voting to take place . The House continues balloting until it elects a president . Donald John Trump would be elected President of the United States via the House of Representatives as the GOP controls an absolute majority of state delegations .