PA Jew tax <| sep |> Questions about this I highly doubt it will happen , but might there be plenty of electors who are planning to be faithless and vote against Trump , and are just keeping mum ? Except for encouraging other electors , I can ' t see much advantage to stepping forward almost a month before their vote , putting their names in the public and inviting weeks of harassment . Might it be that some have decided to be faithless and are waiting until closer to announce it , if at all ? If I were an elector , faithless or otherwise , I imagine I ' d want to keep my name out of the papers as long as possible . Also , are these electors chosen based on party Republican winners get a bunch of Republican electors or is it spread out somewhat more evenly , with Democrats as red electors and vice versa ? I do wonder if there are 40 Democrats among all of those red states who would do this . Let me state again , clearly , that this is purely question and conjecture . I ' m not suggesting that I expect this to happen .