Whether or not their maneuver succeeds — and it almost certainly won’t —
they’ll have done something that has longstanding consequences.
Politicizing the Electoral College means that from here on out, whether
electors vote according to the wishes of their states’ citizens will be
an open question.
We’re now stuck with an extra step in presidential elections, whereby
electors, who are little more than party functionaries, find themselves
subject to pressure campaigns, demand intelligence briefings, and the
like, and are seemingly endowed with the ability to make a subjective
determination about the “fitness” of a candidate.
-- Michael Tracey, "Anti-Trump forces want the Electoral College to orchestrate a coup: Those ginning up resistance are breathtakingly hypocritical" (NEW YORK DAILY NEWS).