Posted on 11/22/2016 2:07:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
At least six electors — members of the Electoral College whose votes actually elect the President — have vowed to cast ballots that don't align with the popular vote results of their states, Politico reported Tuesday.
If they carry out their intentions — in effect, becoming "faithless electors" — they would narrow Donald Trump's margin-of-victory in the Electoral College over Hillary Clinton.
One elector, Michael Baca said in a statement that he wouldn’t vote for Trump.
“The Founding Fathers created the Electoral College as the last line of defense, and I think we must do all that we can to ensure that we have a Reasonable Republican candidate who shares our American values,” he said.
Added elector Bret Chiafalo, who along with Baca is part of a small group called Hamilton Electors, “All we’re trying to do is honor what the Founding Fathers gave us.”
Some electors told Politico that they were attempting to persuade some of their Republican colleagues in the body to vote for someone other than Trump, but they would need at least 15 additional electors (and likely many more) to sway the race....
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Whaddaya know? More fake news from Big Media!
Breathless talking points for the media and Hillary loser supporters on social media...not going to happen. Think Cruz campaign “wrangling” delegates before the Republican Convention.
Democrats aren’t going to vote for Trump? #fakenews
In that case, aren’t they Hillary delegates? And if so, aren’t we expecting them to vote for Hillary instead of Trump anyway? And how would that narrow Trump’s victory?
Screw tradition, huh?
much less the will of the people of that state.
nothing new for some in the party of commies
Now wait... does this mean they will vote Green? Or Libertarian? Or maybe even... DONALD?
When Burr told Hamilton to shut-up, he should have listened.
Headline writers are not sworn to make sense. And sometimes they could be way off.
And they were wondering g if trump would accept the results.
Like the guy from NJ who didn’t vote because he didn’t think Trump would win... if he just would have cast his vote...
Then why are these people part of the process? They should be kicked out!
If the alt-left wants to get the shooting war started right away a good strategy is to invalidate the election we just had with shenanigans like this. I hope they are smart enough not to go forward with this.
Why is this even being reported? These are Clinton electors
These people are either ignorant or delusional. Possibly both.
The Congress, firmly in the hands of the Republicans, can reject any faithless elector’s votes....................
They’re Democrats and would have voted Hillary anyhow. The only change they could make is to somehow NOT vote for Hillary.
Who cares? Its Dems not voting for Hillary? Huh?
That’s how it sounds. The only other thing we hear is that they still don’t intend to vote for Donald either. So will they be abstention votes?
I don't follow. How will Hillary electors from Colorado and Washington State (both states that went for Hillary) not voting for Hillary "narrow Donald Trump's margin-of-victory in the Electoral College"? Don't they teach arithmetic in school any more? Or have the Democrats all been on a bender for the last 2 weeks?
Sounds like the commentary was written with all of 1/2 second of thought.
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