This made me chuckle: in relation to Democrat electors voting for somebody else:
"It appeared to be the largest number of electors not supporting their party's nominee since 1872, when 63 Democratic electors did not vote for party nominee Horace Greeley,
who had died after the election but before the Electoral College convened."
So the last time so many electors broke tradition and voted for another person, was because their candidate had died!
Seriously, I hope the Democrats can come to their senses. They try to persuade Republican electors to vote for HRC- then it backfires and 5 of their own vote for somebody else. Sheesh, unless voters can be confident that college electors will support their advertised nominee, you can't actually be sure what you're voting for. Once again, these calls to undermine Trump are actually an attempt to subvert voter will and yet again, it's an own goal. Come on Democrats: he won, so now you need to figure out what you screwed up and do better next time rather than trying to overturn the will of the voters.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1