Not even just a quickie ? Please ? <| sep |> Hell , even without a recount flipping the states , it would only take 40 republican electors picked by the party voting for a 3 rd person to push it to the house given the Republican establishment ' s views on Trump it ' s not so unlikely . especially considering the Republican majority would guarantee Clinton would still lose in the house . Edit Wouldn ' t be surprised to see these names getting electoral votes ~~ Paul Ryan Wisconsin , John Kasich Ohio ~~, Mitt Romney , Evan McMullan Utah , Ted Cruz Texas and Mike Pence variousEdit 2 Struck off the states which have laws against electors going rogue though that doesn ' t necessarily mean those names couldn ' t appear elsewhere it ' s worth noting that in Wisconsin and Minnesota void faithless votes , meaning that the votes still wouldn ' t go back to the original candidate , and other states that do punish faithless electors don ' t invalidate the votes , so it would still be possible .