Michigan’s 16 electors will cast their votes for president at 2 p.m. 
Wednesday, presumably for Donald J. Trump, though several 
Republican electors say they have been lobbied to change their
 votes as part of a nationwide campaign to deny the president-elect 
a victory in the Electoral College. The vote in Michigan takes place
 at 2 p.m. in the Senate chambers at the Capitol building in Lansing.
Protesters are expected to be on hand to try to sway electors, who
 have have been inundated with hundreds of pieces of mail and emails
 from groups that believe the electors have a moral responsibility to
 deny Trump the presidency. Similar protests are taking place 
around the country as electors meet.
Trump is the first president-elect in history to face such a revolt, and
 the number of “faithless electors” who aren’t expected to vote for
 him could be the greatest in history.
“These unprecedented protests are making clear that Donald Trump
 lost the popular vote and has no mandate,” Adam Green, co-founder
 of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which is organizing
 some of the protests, said in a statement. “Regardless of how the
 Electoral College votes, these protests remind the political world 
that Trump does not represent the will of the people — and will 
embolden Democrats to fight Trump as he helps big international 
corporations at the expense of American workers.”
In Michigan, protesters were gathering at the Capitol in advance
 of the vote.



Wyckham Seelig, a 73-year-old elector from Lodi Township near
 Ann Arbor, told The Detroit News he has been receiving “cardboard
 trays full of letters asking me not to vote for the person the
 people of the state of Michigan chose.”


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“This is a crucial moment in our history because technically he hasn’t
 won the presidency,” Brian Fairbrother, 27, a deputy clerk in Shelby
 Township told the Detroit Free Press. “It’s truly an honor to be a 
part of history. It’s the highlight of my life so far.”
Trump narrowly won Michigan, by a margin of 10,704 votes, or 0.2 
percent, the closest margin in any of the key battleground states
 that swung the election to the political maverick’s favor.
More than 4.8 million people have signed a petition urging electors
 to vote for Clinton, who won the popular vote by more than 2.8 million
 votes but fell short of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the
 Electoral College. Trump received 306 electoral college votes from
 30 states, compared to 232 votes in 20 states for Clinton.
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