Posted on 12/19/2016 5:44:59 AM PST by Rockitz
WASHINGTON (AP) — Electors are gathering Monday in every state to formally elect Donald Trump president even as anti-Trump forces try one last time to deny him the White House.
Protests are planned Monday for state capitals, but they’re unlikely to persuade the Electoral College to dump Trump. An Associated Press survey of electors found very little appetite to vote for alternative candidates.
Republican electors say they have been deluged with emails, phone calls and letters urging them not to support Trump.
The AP tried to reach all 538 electors and interviewed more than 330 of them, finding widespread aggravation among Democrats with the electoral process.
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My thoughts exactly. Maybe the folks who set the EC vote date did it on purpose?!
Breitbart is trying to get it’s credibility back with the MSM and advertisers. Pandering at its best...
I think the Electoral "College" should be abolished. I'm fine with each state having a certain amount of electoral votes. But I am not fine with a "college" in which electors can "vote their conscience" rather than reflect the will of the state they represent. I do not see a need for a gathering of electors to do another vote in addition to the one we did last month. Technically, it can be said that my wife and I didn't vote for Trump if the recalcitrant Texas elector who is not voting for Trump represents us.
Cuz my book “How Trump Won” isn’t out til Jan 18
Agreed...not sure why the “electors” can be allowed to vote for anyone except the popularly elected candidate. Maybe change it to Electoral Rep. College!
Epic.
States can change how their electors work. The best arrangement I have seen requires each elector to vote for the candidate who won the popular vote in their specific Congressional district. The electors "representing" the state's Senators votes are required to vote for the candidate who won the popular vote statewide. I forget which state has this arrangement, but I like it.
“finding widespread aggravation among Democrats with the electoral process.”
Sore losers.
Or just plain losers.
If even two reneg, I’ll be extremely surprised.
Looking at the cities with the highest gun-related crime rates, I would beg to differ.
The writer should consult a dictionary when he doesn't know what a word means.
Gang bangers are not interested in revolution, they are interested in sex, drugs and hip hop. And even if they were, spray and pray with a .40 is no match for an AR15 or a .308.
The problem with that arrangement is it dilutes the power of the states.
That being said, if that's how a particular state wants to select their electors, it's none of the federal government's business.
Deseret News Utah
By Amy Joi O’Donoghue@amyjoi16
Published: Dec. 18, 2016 8:30 p.m.
Updated: 12 hours ago
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Demonstrators hoping to reach Utah’s electors gather on the steps of the Utah State Capitol building in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016. About 20 people gathered with the hope of influencing Utah’s electors not to vote for Donald Trump.
SALT LAKE CITY — A candlelight vigil was held Sunday at the Utah State Capitol to call on Utah’s six Republican presidential electors to change their vote and usher in a different president than Donald J. Trump.
It’s a highly emotional calling for opponents of Trump’s victory in November, critics who are rallying in advance of Monday’s traditionally routine gathering of 538 electors to ratify the results of the election.
For Lisa Browdy, it’s personal.
“I find him frightening and an unqualified person,” the Utah resident said.
Browdy said it should be noted that while Trump won Utah in the election, he received just 45 percent of the vote.
“Utah rules say electors have to vote for Trump,” she conceded, but noted there are ways to choose a more qualified candidate, especially given homegrown favorites like Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman Jr.
The push for electors to change their vote has swept across the country in what most say is a feeble attempt to derail Trump’s ascension to the White House.
State laws vary, but many require electors to vote for the candidate who won the popular vote in their state. If they cast a vote for anyone else, it can be prosecutable crime.
Under Utah law, Trump must receive all the state’s Electoral College votes as the winner of the Nov. 8 presidential election here. Electors who fail to comply are replaced but do not face any penalties. Utah’s electors have said they’ll follow the law and vote for Trump.
Browdy said the Hamilton Electors are using the rallies nationwide as a fundraising mechanism to assure electors who may go “astray” that there will be money to fight on their behalf.
Controversy over Trump’s election to the White House has been stoked by the fact that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million votes.
The presidency goes to the candidate who wins at least 270 electoral votes assigned to states. Trump won enough of the popular vote in those states where it counted.
http://www.deseretnews.com/
For detractors like Browdy, if enough pressure is put on electors to change their vote, there is a change in the country’s destiny.
“Her (Clinton’s) losing was bad, but Trump’s winning was worse,” she said.
More rallies are planned around the country Monday as the Electoral College meets to vote.
Those aren’t the ones who’d be involved in a civil war. Turf war, yes; civil, no.
How??? The electors are still residents of the individual states, and will undoubtedly take state-wide issues as current electors do. But they will also consider issues specific to their districts, but not necessarily state-wide.
What it "does" dilute is the power of megacities within a state (cf NYC in New York, Chicago in Illinois, Atlanta in Georgia, Seattle in Washington, etc.). But I see the latter as a major plus.
You make a good point.
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