Posted on 11/10/2016 5:16:49 PM PST by Morgana
A petition on Change.org calling for the Electoral College to elect Hillary Clinton as President has earned over half of the signatures needed for it to be sent to the governing body.
The petition, launched on Wednesday after Donald Trump was elected President, calls for the Electoral College to “ignore their states’ votes and cast their ballots for Secretary Clinton.”
Although Trump won over the 270 necessary electoral votes to secure the Presidency, Clinton narrowly earned the nation’s popular vote.
The Electoral College – which was first introduced in 1804 – is comprised of 538 electors. Each state’s number of electors is decided by its number of members in Congress, which is dependent on the state’s population. So, when American citizens cast their ballots, they aren’t directly voting for president – they’re voting for electors. This year, Trump took 279, to Clinton’s 228.
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I absolutely LOVE your World Series explanation/comparison.
It makes it easier to explain to the grandkids.
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They should really try to levitate the pentagon instead
Winning the popular vote and losing in a landslide at the EC should not be possible.
Only way that can happen is with fraud.
This is what 8 years of Obama has brought to our country....
The question would be....how many were dead folks, illegal folks, and double-voting folks? Maybe 50,000? Also, with this on-line petition thing...you could be eight years old and sign off on the petition.
It is true. That’s okay, we played by the same rules that saw Bill Clinton and Barack Obama elected.
http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president
Tell them that those signatures count as a second vote and that they are now ballot stuffers.
Former Commie professor from Boston University. Currently deaded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn#Socialism
Nobody ever told them...The Electoral College doesn’t grade on the curve.
In the 240 year history of the U.S., there have been 157 faithless electors, according to the nonprofit FairVote. Nearly half changed their votes because the candidate to whom they were pledged died before the Electoral College met, three chose to abstain and the other 82 broke their pledge for reasons of personal preference or conscience. But none has ever successfully changed the outcome of an election.
If an election comes down to a skirmish in the Electoral College, what actually happens will likely depend on a patchwork of state laws and constitutional checks.
In Washington state, for example, it’s technically illegal for an elector to break his pledge to his party, although the ramifications are minimal and no elector has ever been prosecuted. If Satiacum and Chiafalo follow through on their threats to break their party pledge, they could be slapped with fines of around $1,000. In Georgia and Texas, where there are no laws governing electors, Vu and Suprun would face no consequences.
But that doesn’t mean their votes will necessarily stand. If any faithless elector ends up swaying the outcome of the election, federal lawmakers have a couple of avenues of recourse, both of which are baked into the U.S. Constitution.
More: time.com/4560682/faithless-electors/
Lol...because the vote of tens of millions means nothing to selfish infants.
Wrong! The Electoral College (although not explicitly referred to as such) was provided for in the original Constitution (1787). It was only after the highly contested election of 1800 (essentially Jefferson vs. Adams, which was decided in the House of Representatives) that the Twelfth Amendment was ratified in an attempt to smooth out the process and make it less likely for an election to be decided in the House. The Twelfth Amendment, for the first time, specified that Electors in their respective states were to vote separately for president and vice-president. It was ratified in 1804.
It may be possible; when you factor the california and new york votes; but its doesn’t effect the electoral college.
To your fraud point, I think it was probably significant, so she may not even have more votes were it not for the fraud.
I also believe were it not for both PA and MI going red, there would have been a large amount of “found” ballots in either Detroit or Philly.
Let’s suppose that we did do this by popular vote. That is a completely different set of rules and president elect Trump would have campaigned differently. He would have spent time in NY and California for instance... 500k mental midgets.
Does a few thousand signatures outweigh tens upon tens of millions of votes?
Does a few thousand signatures outweigh tens upon tens of millions of votes?
Exactly.
They don’t care about the Constitution.
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They only care about how they “feel” about the scary, insane, bigot caricature the media lies portrayed
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