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 wouldnt 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 were 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....
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Stop trying to confuse the Liberal Media with facts. [/sarc]
I don’t understand why we have to involve humans at all in this. Each state has a number of electoral votes the candidate receives when he wins that state. Why do we need someone to actually cast an electoral vote? What protection does this offer?
Typical LIB media distortion and idiocy. I laugh at these integrity-free “journalists”. They are an embarrassment to the First Amendment and to sanity. Losers.
After the vote they gotta go home.
Just sayin...
5.56mm
The House can object and the elector can be delete.
Looks like he needs to make aliyah and serve three years in the IDF and grow himself a pair.
Oy Vey
He needs some pro-activ.
Go back to your cob webbed typewriters, your to stupid to know how to turn on a computer...what a joke!!!
Robert Satiacum (D-Washington) is another Sanders supporter.
1 Washington state Democratic elector wont support Clinton, another wont commit (Seattle Times, Nov 4).
Michael Baca (R) represents Colorado which went for Hillary so his vote won't be counted anyway.
How long is the Times going to pretend that the Michigan site doesn’t show Trump won their electors on 11/10/2016?
Lol. So there was a possibility that they might have voted for Trump?
“So far, as near as I can tell, not one Donald Trump elector has defected. The only “faithless elector” is a Hillary Clinton one from the state of Washington. All this breathless hype from the media, and that’s the result.”
Thanks for clearing this up. Trump knows that he has not been officially elected President yet, and is playing it really cool until that day (other than showing his hand to us a bit with Sessions and Bannon).
As far as electors go, what’s happening, from what I read elsewhere, is that some of Hillary’s electors aren’t going to cast a futile vote for that beast on the hope they can ‘set a precedent’ to peel off some of the Trump electors. As I understand it, only one of Trump’s electors has waivered (a clown from Austin, and that was reported months ago), and that’s it so far - and Trump refuses to give them any new reason to waiver...so Trump is carefully gliding in to the big job.
Agreed. This news article is bogus.
That will p*$$ them off.
Next stop is repealing the 17th Amendment, and having the Senators elected by the State legislatures as intended by the FFs.
I can not fathom how the progressives got that Amendment passed. It gutted the Senate. It has almost, by itself, destroyed the country.
Proof is the host of maggots like Reid, Boxer, Schumer, etc., who infest the Senate, the "World's Greatest Deliberative Body." Loathsome creatures all.
States have to settle any controversy over Electors by December 13, so the Times can pretend until then.
Let's throw in the 16th Amendment for good measure.
The Daily News reporter is repeating a tale told 5 days before by Patricia Ramirez at Inquisitr.
They don't even bother to get anywhere near truth any more.
Full-on propaganda.
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