Lessig: I appreciate your scholarship. The Electoral College is a complex entity that has rarely strayed from the states' results and only recently have scenarios developed that require two slates of electors to be 'duly selected' and 'contingent.' If your suggestion is followed, the Party with the 'duly selected' status will learn how to delay past the point where a winner must be selected. Under threat of criminal charges for meeting, a simple phone call would be sufficient to get the contingent team ready should they be called on, and at that point no one is going to file criminal charges. The problem is the judicial system. Election Day is no surprise - we know exactly when it's going to be. We should have a whole emergency team ready to hear cases as soon as they are filed, and we wouldn't have to twist ourselves in pretzels about timing factors. Can you imagine if an election's results were overturned, but the votes couldn't go to the winner because they didn't file a slate of electors, as they were threatened with legal action? I can't believe that would hold up in court. The flaw in the document you showed us is more easily overcome than the snail's pace of legal bureaucracy.