Report: Presidential electors planning to undermine Electoral College

The Hill ^ | 11/22/2016 | Harper Neidig

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

A number of Democratic Electoral College electors are planning to use their votes to undermine the election process in opposition to President-elect Donald Trump, Politico is reporting.

Some electors are lobbying their Republican counterparts to vote for someone other than Trump in an attempt to deny him the 270 votes required to elect him, according to the news outlet. They are also contemplating whether to cast their votes for someone other than Hillary Clinton

With at least six electors already vowing to become "faithless," the defection could be the most significant since 1808, when six Democratic-Republican electors refused to vote for James Madison, choosing vice presidential candidate George Clinton instead.

The electors acknowledge that it is unlikely that they will be able to block Trump from gaining office, Politico reported, but they are optimistic that their effort will raise enough questions about the Electoral College to reform or abolish it.

"If it gets into the House, the controversy and the uncertainty that would immediately blow up into a political firestorm in the U.S. would cause enough people — my hope is — to look at the whole concept of the Electoral College," one of the electors told Politico.

It’s unclear how many, if any, Republicans have signed on to the effort.

Twenty-nine states legally require their electors to obey the results of the popular vote in their state.

[Innovative]

I don’t think it is legal. It should not be allowed.

[ichabod1]

Oh, they want to abolish it until the first time it works against them.

[lepton]

I don’t think that is correct.

They can be fined - though that is of questionable legality.

It’s leftists - mostly Sanders followers incorporated to give Hillary’s nomination a happy face - try to make a mess. It’s what they do. The question is whether Trump got his supporters as Electors. If he did, there’d be no reason to expect anyone who matters to change.

[lepton]

You have been watching a branch of the Anti-trump folks attack each other and their towns, and commit ‘hate crimes’ against each other, right?

[lepton]

Scare tactics...to convince a bunch of people to wreck a system over what if. Like the furor over butterfly ballots.

[hinckley buzzard]

Surprise. "Electors" are simply political hacks who are accorded what most consider largely a ceremonial honor. They may very well be stupid. They may be 70 year old women whose deceased husbands were movers in the party. Mostly they are just nobodies relishing a potential moment in the limelight.

[hinckley buzzard]

Surprise. "Electors" are simply political hacks who are accorded what most consider largely a ceremonial honor. They may very well be stupid. They may be 70 year old women whose deceased husbands were movers in the party. Mostly they are just nobodies relishing a potential moment in the limelight.

[Hostage]

Electors receiving death threats have been interviewed where they explain that most states have laws that will replace them if they fail to vote as the state goes.

The following posts in this thread also talk about Congress as a backstop and other related matters:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3497225/posts?page=52#52

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3497225/posts?page=119#119

[boatbums]

Aren’t there alternate electors in every state? It would seem these “faithless” ones should be replaced by their alternates and do what they agree to do when given the privilege to BE electors.

[GSWarrior]

I keep saying this. The election is not over until Trump takes the oath of office.

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[Kellis91789]

Is this true in every state ? Who vetted the electors to be sure they aren’t Trojan Horses ?

[golas1964]

Trump should tear the roof off the sucka!

[GraceG]

Why do you think the media is pushing the Narrative that:

“Trump is either a NAZI or the people around him are NAZIs”

I think it is being done specifically to Spook the Electors...

Then a DNC operative will get close to the electors and sweet talk them and tell them that “ Hey you’ve seen the news, do you want to be responsible for seating the next Adolph Hitler as out next president, you can help save the united statues...”

And then they show them all the news articles about the supposed “Alt-Right Trump Nazi” controversy....

All they need need to do is to convince 20+1 electors....

[a fool in paradise]

The Hill is another “fake news” site.

[windsorknot]

This story is headed for the X-Files.

[Elsie]

Report: Presidential electors planning to undermine Electoral College

They'll have to do a LOT of digging!

The most likely scenario, after all the counting is over,
gives Donald 306 electoral votes. Hillary Clinton will end up with 232.

http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/16/electoral-college-not-drop-trump-hillary/

[Elsie]

Jeezy—The media is really flogging this scenario.

[Elsie]

There’s a high chance Politico folds in the next year as it has been proven they are propped up by subscriptions from the federal government and its contractors, by directives to buy their worthless material because it serves the progressive cause.

[Elsie]

Four years of law school and all they can come up with is, “So’s yer mama!”?