Vermont expected to go for Clinton in Electoral College

While some national groups have suggested a compromise candidate be elected in place of either Trump or Clinton, Casey said such pleadings most likely would not change the outcome in Vermont — partly because state law locks Vermont's electors in to the winner of the popular vote in the state.

All three of Vermont's electors — Gov. Peter Shumlin, state representative and Democratic Party Vice Chairman Tim Jerman, and Martha Allen, president of the Vermont chapter of the National Education Association teachers' union, said in recent interviews that they would vote for Clinton.

Jerman was among those who said that Clinton's winning the national popular vote and likely losing in the Electoral College would give new impetus to scrapping or more likely circumventing an institution for electing presidents that dates from the 1787 drafting of the Constitution.