Posted on 10/19/2016 3:12:20 PM PDT by dsc
Got my Colorado ballot today. The heading for the block containing presidential candidates is headed "Presidential Electors."
I went down to the election office and asked them about it, pointing out that "elector" does not mean "candidate," and asking about the use of that term.
They seemed puzzled and said that was the terminology passed to them by the CO Secretary of State.
You are voting for electors for the actual presidential vote by the “electoral college.”
Check out the constitution.
Wish you could change these bloody things. Can’t believe I wrote that “the heading is headed.”
Senility gallops on. Anybody else want a ride?
Although ballots list the names of the presidential and vice presidential candidates (who run on a ticket), voters actually choose electors when they vote for president and vice president. These presidential electors in turn cast electoral votes for those two offices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_States)
That is correct.
Citizens vote for electors who then cast votes for the president.
Such as it ever was.
“You are voting for electors for the actual presidential vote by the “electoral college.”
But the first block reads “Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine,” and the second “Donald J. Trump/Michael R. Pence.” Are we voting for Clinton and Trump to be Colorado electors?
Because that seems to be how it is written.
Don’t worry about it. If you voted by mail, some postal worker will probably just shred you ballot anyways (per several threads here, although Snopes — LOL like I trust them — say it’s fake).
And if you vote in person, well, then there is Diebold and Soros...
Who might get the Presidental appointment in such a case?
VP is only appointed if the electoral vote has been counted.
Okay, thanks for the info. I wouldn’t have dignified it with the term “conspiracy,” though. More like a nasty little trick.
“If you voted by mail, some postal worker will probably just shred you ballot anyways (per several threads here, although Snopes — LOL like I trust them — say it’s fake).”
When I read that story, I wondered how the postal worker knew that the ballot was marked for Trump. Did he just start opening ballots until he found a vote for Trump?
I would severely limit these ballots strictly to people who must leave town or are infirm.
Short answer: Snopes and others say it did not happen, but yes. Then he apparently re-sealed the Hillary votes after destroying the Trump votes.
Don’t worry about it. If you voted by mail, some postal worker will probably just shred you ballot anyways (per several threads here, although Snopes — LOL like I trust them — say it’s fake).
And if you vote in person, well, then there is Diebold and Soros...
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So you’re saying voting is useless and we shouldn’t waste our time. Got it!
Yeah, kind of. Except for the fact that there are countering forces in play now.
Vote. It’s our last chance. And again, countering forces are in play. But don’t vote by mail. Vote in person.
srsly?
No, you are actually voting for the “electors” who are supposedly pledged to go to the Electoral College meeting to vote for either Trump or Hillary - that’s where the skullduggery might show itself - sometimes “pledged” electors threaten to change their minds and vote for someone else or for no one when the time comes......
You do realize, don’t you, that you have NO constitutional right to participate in the choice of who the president will be?
“Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.”
It’s solely up to your state legislature whether you participate in the process at all.
I get an early ballot, it allows me take my time in figuring out some of the other categories like water, health care and school board voting that I don’t tend to know who is even running.
I fill out my ballot and bring it to my polling place where you don’t have to wait in line if you are just handing in your sealed ballot. When I vote in person they tend to have you drop your filled out ballot in a box then they feed them thru a machine anyway, so who knows which are counted accurate or not?
The green return envelope doesn’t appear see thru even with brightest light i have available and I am folding my ballot opposite way so the presidential names will be inside instead of facing out.
Vote. It’s our last chance. And again, countering forces are in play. But don’t vote by mail. Vote in person.
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We just received our mail-in ballots this very day. And yes, I totally agree, I will NOT vote by mail! I don’t trust any of these POS Libs, wherever they may work...including the post office! I could just picture some jacka$$ tossing my ballot out!
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