When the six members of Kansas’ Electoral College gather at the statehouse today to cast the state’s electoral votes, surely they will cast all six for Republican Donald Trump. That’s as it should be — it reflects how the state of Kansas voted.

Similarly, Electoral College representatives in states throughout the country should cast their ballots for the candidate who won their states, with the notable exceptions of Maine and Nebraska, who allocate electoral votes by congressional district.

Despite the lobbying and protesting, today’s outcome should be 306 electoral votes for Republican Donald Trump and 232 for Democrat Hillary Clinton.

There is a chance that an elector will flip his or her vote. It hasn’t happened since 2004, but one Republican elector in Texas, a state Trump won, has said he will not cast his ballot for Trump. Still, even if more electors do switch, it is unlikely to affect the outcome of the election. That hasn’t happened since 1836.

In most states, electors are bound by law to cast their Electoral College vote for the candidate voters have selected. Electors who vote differently face misdemeanor charges and fines.

But 15 states, including Kansas, do not bind electors. The others are Georgia, Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia.

Electors in those states are being lobbied to “go faithless” and change their votes. A group calling itself the December 19 Coalition is expected to hold protests in all 50 state capitals today.

“The electors have both the Constitutional right and the moral responsibility to stop Trump,” said Daniel Brezenoff, a part of the coalition of protesters. “He lost the popular vote and he should lose on December 19 at the Electoral College.”

Kelly Arnold, Kansas Republican Party chairman and one of the state’s six electors, said there is no chance that any Kansas electors will change their votes. “I represent the state of Kansas and here, we voted overwhelmingly to elect Donald Trump and I will hold to what the people of Kansas asked me to do,” Arnold said.

Arnold is spot-on. Both candidates understood well the path to getting elected president. They knew the rules of the Electoral College and focused their campaigns in that approach.

Instead of wasting time and money on a futile effort to switch the Electoral College outcome, protesters’ energy would be better spent on building coalitions that can deliver an Electoral College victory in four years.