Posted on 12/15/2008 1:41:15 PM PST by steve-b
Presidential electors met in state capitals around the United States on Monday to confirm last month's presidential election results that will make Barack Obama the 44th U.S. president on January 20.
It is a tradition that goes back to the beginning of the U.S. republic and the first presidential election in 1789....
In all but two states, the winner of the popular vote is awarded all of that state's electoral votes.
The exceptions are Maine and Nebraska, which award electoral votes both statewide and by congressional district.
The electoral vote count in the various state capitals is largely ceremonial in nature and there is little suspense about the outcome.
In Pennsylvania, clerk Clifford Levine announced the results after the presidential electors cast their votes in the state capital of Harrisburg.
"The electors of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have cast 21 votes for the honorable Barack Obama as President of the United States," said Levine....
(Excerpt) Read more at voanews.com ...
“Honorable”?
Nice of him to at least provide proof of his Constitutional eligibility.
So much for the 50 Secretaries of State doing their jobs to confirm that the candidate is Constitutionally eligible to actually SERVE as President.
The Constitution is dead. God have mercy on us.
Maybe so, but he is not my president....
The Constitution is a tradition?
Who needs the electors?...... The media already confirmed him.
an historic and momentous day for our nation
(but then Pearl Harbor was historic and momentous as well)
May God have mercy on our Nation...
the whole idea of a president comes from this little ‘tradition’ we call the Constitution
Apart from a glaring factual error, does anyone else have a problem with this sentence?
Based on what law?
TRADITION!? It’s the Constitution!!!
Let em confim all they want. It won’t stop the legal challenges that exist and the others that will come.
There were people who kept saying that we could keep the electors from voting for Obama, since he wouldn’t prove that he was qualified, under the Constitution to be President of the United States.
But, here we are — and it was not prevented. We’re still going to get Obama, whether we like it or not.
What people need to work on is to make sure it doesn’t happen again. If you think you’re going to get Obama out of there, by some mechanism now — it ain’t gonna work..., sorry...
Work for the future, to make sure that the Constitutional requirement is followed. We don’t need to get into this mess again...
Apparently it's not even that anymore.
Damned sad.
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"I chust found out my Mother lied. I was boahn heah. I don't haff to prove it now."
Quaint local custom these folks have.
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