Posted on 11/11/2016 12:09:46 PM PST by Lazamataz
President-elect Donald Trump, flanked by his wife, Melania, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., gives a thumbs-up on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, after their meeting. (Photo: Molly Riley/AP)
The election of Donald Trump as president is a bitter pill to swallow for millions of Americans and some are backing a quixotic campaign to reverse that outcome.
As of Friday afternoon, more than 2.4 million people had signed a petition to the U.S. Electoral College, urging its members to ignore their states votes and cast their ballots for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Trump is unfit to serve. His scapegoating of so many Americans, and his impulsivity, bullying, lying, admitted history of sexual assault, and utter lack of experience make him a danger to the Republic, wrote Elijah Berg, who launched the petition on Change.org.
Berg, of North Carolina, argued that the Electoral College can award the White House to either candidate and should use its own most undemocratic institution to ensure a democratic result.
Berg continued: 24 states bind electors. If electors vote against their party, they usually pay a fine. And people get mad. But they can vote however they want and there is no legal means to stop them in most states.
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So much for their demands to accept the results of the election.
>?>Clinton is the first presidential candidate since 2000 to win the popular vote while losing the White House<<
The count is not done and it is now less than 1/10 or 1% difference. Chances are good that meme will fall also in the next day or so.
And look at the number of idiots who don’t understand the EC and are calling for the tyranny of the majority. They don’t even understand we have NEVER been a democracy and thank God for that!
Please ensure the petitioners list their full legal name, address, city, state, ZIP ans SSN.
It will make it easier to identify and find them when.............
yes
Libs kept shouting during the election that Trump was fascist....who are the fascists now?
I’ve had to put up with the Kenyanesian Usurpation for eight years, they can suck it up.
Just another point made on how sore losers react. Progressives try to change the election by hook or crook.
Before you go starting a civil war please try to remember that we own most of the guns in this country.
Professionally,
CC
P.S. Also most the combat vets and all of the brains.
I’m sorry, but I’m pretty sure that none of these ‘binding vote’ laws would ever stand up to serious review. The electoral college can, if they so choose, pick anyone for president.
But they are electors chosen by the parties; to imagine there’s that many ‘NeverTrumpers’ who’d swap their votes is laughable. ESPECIALLY if it comes at the request of sore losers (who are at this moment trying their hardest to find these electors and get them under their thumb.)
The funny thing is, had these sore losers actually thought about it and said ‘okay, we’re pretty sure that Bernie would have won had Hillary not cheated, so we want him installed as president,’ that might have been a successful argument.
Of course, that would also mean that their party electors who are nearly 100% loyal to a fault to Hillary (and thus is the worst part of having her as a candidate, the return of the Dixie Mafia to all levels of their party...) would have to vote for someone other than she who shall win...
So, yeah, I’m sure there will be a couple flips both ways come the 19th of December, but it will be Trump who will be inaugurated in January.
Why don’t they start a petition declaring that the Indians beat the Cubs in the World Series? It has as much chance of success.
True dat. Good addendum.
CC
The sad thing is that most of those people think the Electoral College is a school somewhere, with a bunch of pointy-headed liberal professors.
It would have been a whole lot cheaper and faster to just have a petition drive to determine the president. No need for elections.
There is no such organization as the “U.S. Electoral College.” Who are they sending this petition to? Each candidate for president submitted along with its filing with the secretary of state of each state a slate of persons to be named electors in the event the candidate is successful. Upon certification of election by the secretary of state of each state, they will notify the persons listed on the winning slate that they should attend the electoral college in their state capitol on December 19, 2016 to cast their votes for president and vice-president. Historically, fewer than 1/538 of electors betray their candidate in any election, Even if 10% of Trump’s electors were to defect it would not change the outcome of the election.
Lock and load brothers and sisters its gonna get bloody
That's okay, you just gotta lead them a bit more.
CC
anyone with an internet connections or smart phone
Also, all of the votes have not yet been counted.
Also, all of the votes have not yet been counted and they won’t be for a while.
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