RE: Again, fake news posting as actual fact.
This news isn’t fake. It’s REAL. Whether it will amount to anything is another matter.
This news isn’t fake. It’s REAL. Whether it will amount to anything is another matter.
In the end it doesn't really matter either way, Suprun states "December 19th is when the election actually happens. And that's when we'll find out who is President." He is incorrect, the election actually happens on January 6th when Congress meets to review the electoral votes.
"Members of Congress can object to any state's electoral vote count, provided objection is presented in writing and is signed by at least one member of each house of Congress. An objection supported by at least one senator and one representative will be followed by the suspension of the joint session and by separate debates and votes in each House of Congress; after both Houses deliberate on the objection, the joint session is resumed. A state's certificate of vote can be rejected only if both Houses of Congress vote to accept the objection. In that case, the votes from the State in question are simply ignored. The votes of Arkansas and Louisiana were rejected in the presidential election of 1872."
So in layman's terms, Congress can reject any votes by "faithless electors" with a protest by a single member of Congress and a single Senator which triggers a majority vote in the House or Senate to sustain the objection. If the vote passes, the electoral votes in question are tossed.
If at that point no candidate has 270 electoral votes then that removes the electoral college from the equation entirely and kicks the election to a vote in the House where each state delegation votes as a block and Trump will win easily, as Republican have a substantial majority of state delegations.
So under every scenario devised, Trump will still win.
It’s fake news that there are other faithless electors.