They all should be getting protection, but they won’t.
How is the gov’t being in charge of elections of itself not a conflict of interest? Unfortunaty I have no obvious alternative.
My guess is that a maximum of two or three electoral college votes will be “faithless” and the most likely form of that will be abstention. I won’t be surprised if the actual number is zero or one, but will go with the prediction of two or three.
States should look at more effective penalties that will essentially make these votes automatic.
I wonder whether Republicans and the right in general would benefit from a system more like Maine and Nebraska use, namely two votes from the statewide vote, otherwise district by district. There goes the blocs of votes for Democrats in CA and NY but I imagine the math would render the same results just in a more complicated form. But that system could then be changed from designated electors to votes cast by governors (for their state) and by the elected congressmen and women (for their districts) in the House, state ballots to be opened before the reps vote.
At a rough count, the results in 2016 using my suggestion would be Trump 280 Clinton 258. A little closer than the current method.