If you abolish the EC

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13. Convince the Electors

Seriously doubt a recount will change any results in a meaningful way but no harm in doing it.

Facts- Trump won for a number of reasons:
1- Way more racists came out from under their rocks than I could have imagined. I want to think we're better than that- we're not to our eternal shame.
2-Voter suppression efforts by the GOP at a minimum, probably kept 2-5 million Dem voters from voting.
3-Electoral College is antiquated, unfair and a real threat to democracy.
4- HRC most qualified candidate maybe ever but virtually zero charisma.

As I see it, best chance to convince electors to deny Trump is to stress the EC issue.
The only way to get the GOP to move on changing the EC is to make it cost them.
Take away their Trump win and watch how fast they vote to eliminate the Electoral College.
That's the approach I'd take to convincing electors to consider being "Faithless".