Posted on 12/03/2016 8:00:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Four of Colorado's nine Electoral College electors plan to challenge a state law that would prevent a long-shot bid to keep President-elect Donald Trump out of the White House.
Robert Nemanich, of Colorado Springs, said Saturday he and three other electors intend to sue Colorado's governor, attorney general, secretary of state and state Democratic Party chairman claiming state law requiring electors to vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidates "who received the highest number of votes at the preceding general election in this state," is unconstitutional....
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It’s top three vote getters in the electoral college, not popular vote. If Romney or whoever gets 37 of the Republican electors, the vote goes to the house would pick between Trump the witch and whoever those voters picked.
It is true that the case is currently in state court. I'm guessing the plaintiffs started it there because they're challenging a state law. Appeals may take it to Federal Court. Don't be fooled. The intent is to challenge similar laws nationwide.
“I would love to hear your take on the Denver airport that replaced Stapleton.”
It was pure Demonrat corruption, from top to bottom. I toured it several times under construction, and due to circumstances got to play on the deserted runways, a la Sebring.
The corruption led directly to Peña’s tour as Transportation Secretary even though the only thing he knew about transportation was how to transport his fingers into the money stream.
The next snow that hit Denver, nowhere near the Christmas Blizzard, he got the brilliant idea to pack the snow on the streets with garbage trucks. You can imagine how well that turned out.
Just a guess, but I would imagine they’re trying to set a legal precedent, so other state’s electors won’t have to follow the law.
The Left relies much on judicial activism to deny the vote.
Need I even mention the BAE baggage system fiasco?
This is your brain on drugs.
The electoral college doesn’t have ballots. They write down whatever name they want on a piece of paper.
The top three EV recipients. If an Elector goes rogue and votes for Mickey Mouse, as a natural-born citizen of requisite age, he could be elected by the House. So, if Romney or some other “better” Republican were to get even one EV, the House could, in theory, elect him.
Clinton won CO. Irrelevant.
The power to select the candidates rests with the state legislatures. The electors themselves are glorified messengers.
Somehow I am not buying your assertion that it is somehow unconstitutional to require any messenger anywhere (electors absolutely included) to deliver a message exactly as they received it.
The Constitution gives plenary power to state legislatures to appoint electors. No state can change that. No court can change that. No state law can change that. No state Constitution can change that.
Nothing can change that but a US Constitutional Amendment. Apparently these morons think the Florida Supreme Court overruled the US Supreme Court's unanimous decision in 2000. They didn't. It was in all the papers.
All of this posturing is dumbass stuff at its worst: "If you don't vote for the guy you're supposed to, we won't either, mmmmmm ... K?"
The only people who've announced they're going to do this are Democrats, whose EV ballot envelope might as well say "LOSER" in big blue letters. Not a single Republican has announced so much as a hypothetical interest in this laughable "plan."
Hamilton's argument is in the Federalist, that makes it obiter dicta from an important source, but it's nothing more than dicta nevertheless.
Unless there were two of them getting one EV, in which case, neither would be eligible.
There was a Florida Republican elector that said he won’t vote for Trump.
He announced his resignation, and will be replaced by someone who can.
...but I think that’s it.
Yep, that might be a tangle.
My point, that no Republican is stupid enough to participate in this silly "revolt," still stands, I believe.
Trump’s electors are loyal to Trump. The failure of an elector to vote for the candidate who picked him for a slate never happens because he knows what side his bread is buttered on.
The main reason for the lack of events where an elector votes for someone else is simply because, for example, Trump supporters chosen to be electors will tend to favor Trump to a very high degree - as you post in your first sentence.
Posters don’t seem to get that electors are not faceless random people.
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