Our conversation with Chad Livengood, a political reporter in the Detroit News' Lansing bureau
Electors gathered today at their state capitols to formalize Donald Trump's election to the presidency. As expected, Michigan's 16 electors cast their votes for Donald Trump.
In the days leading up to today's vote, however, electors endured intense pressure from people around the country to vote against the President-Elect.
“They’ve been getting letters, lots of them, in the mail and emails,” said Detroit News Lansing reporter Chad Livengood. “One elector I talked to – Wyckham Seelig from the Ann Arbor area – he got over 62,000 emails over the last five weeks from people across the country trying to get him to change his vote and buck Donald Trump.”