Posted on 12/08/2016 1:57:43 PM PST by NYer
Just like that – these “electors,” who were elected to a job where they knew the rules, now want to change the rules – because the candidate they personally preferred didn’t win. WAAAAAHHHH! I didn’t get my way, so we have to change the rules.
Essentially, they’re asking to make irrelevant the votes of more than half the voters in their states – because they’re unhappy.
If electors are just going to vote their personal preference, then why even hold a national vote?
The Washington Times reports – Two members of the Electoral College pledged to support Hillary Clinton have filed a lawsuit intended to undo the presidential-election victory of Donald Trump.
Polly Baca and Robert Nemanich, two electors in Colorado, filed their lawsuit in federal court Tuesday challenging the validity of state laws requiring members of the Electoral College to vote for the winner of the popular vote in their states, according to the Denver Post.
The two are casting themselves as “moral electors” who want to “vote their conscience and do their constitutional duty as intended by the framers,” said attorney Jason Wesoky.
Should they win their long-shot lawsuit, it will have no effect in Colorado — Mrs. Clinton won the state and its nine Electoral College votes. But similar laws in other states that voted for Mr. Trump would also be invalid, meaning all 538 members of the Electoral College could vote for whomever they wished — at least potentially undoing the result of the election.
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A case like that will take four years to wind through the system at a minimum.
And the Constitution puts these decisions firmly in the hands of the states.
Does Polly Bacca need a cracker.
When did Colorado get so effedup?
Some people are very confused.
If an elector doesn’t want to go the way the STATE voted REPLACE them!! Is that possible??? I would think it should be.
Typical of the right. Don't like the results? Change the rules. See Article V, term limits, etc
“Two members of the Electoral College pledged to support Hillary Clinton have filed a lawsuit “
How much money did they get from Hillary?
Talk about corruption...
I hope the judge throws out their insane case.
When the anti-American leftist limousine libtards from Cali tired of the state they had screwed up, so they moved here to screw Colorado up.
But wouldn't the change mean that Colorado electors could vote for Trump?
But similar laws in other states that voted for Mr. Trump would also be invalid, meaning all 538 members of the Electoral College could vote for whomever they wished — at least potentially undoing the result of the election.
I thought each state set their own rules. This sounds like wishful thinking on somebody's part.
When they made marijuana legal................
If it’s a mess, it goes to the House, which is loaded with Republicans. No problem, I believe.
This case will end with a judge declaring it MOOT.
Then there’s no purpose in having electors
Refugees from California who want to recreate California in Colorado.
They are actually doing this in order to get a ruling against most electoral binding laws so that electors in Trump states won’t be bound to vote for Trump. That’s the real motive.
As somebody who actually supports electors being free, I nonetheless wish these people would get down on their knees and thank their lucky stars that their commie criminal hag did not win. Any Trump electors thinking of defecting should think again. This is a moral issue, not a legal one, IMO. Do these people want their country to survive, or don’t they?
PING!
April 20th.
No, typical of the left. Anyone changing their obligation to vote according to the will of the people and the oath taken, should be replaced, tried, imprisoned for a long time, and then executed. Or skip the second step.
You mean the left.
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