Posted on 12/19/2016 9:42:45 AM PST by xzins
State Rep. Christina Hagan, R-Marlboro Township, indicated that she will resign as a presidential elector after two residents over the weekend filed an emergency lawsuit alleging that the Ohio Constitution prohibits a state legislator from serving as a presidential elector.
It is unfortunate that the extreme left has engaged in what is the most obvious display of partisan and extreme political bullying that can occur, said a post on Hagans Facebook page late Sunday night. I however will gladly resolve any potential frivolous lawsuits from moving forward by resigning my opportunity to Chair and cast a vote as a member of the Electoral College in order to ensure no delay in the official election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States.
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Maybe she meant harassing.
It is possible to point something out, and then again I can call you every 2 minutes or have a hundred people participate, and at that point it becomes harassment.
Definitely!
( my wife ls out shopping.) ;^}
They are trying to scuttle the Electoral College through alternate means.
If nobody wants to serve as an elector, you can’t have an electoral college.
Not from Ohio but, "If the law supposes that,
the law is a ass" ~ Charles Dickens
Mine’s at work;)
At the state convention of each major political party, persons shall be nominated as candidates for election as presidential electors to be voted for at the succeeding general election. The chairman and secretary thereof shall certify in writing to the secretary of state the names of all persons nominated at such convention as candidates for election as presidential electors. If a major political party does not hold a state convention, the executive committee of the state central committee shall nominate candidates for election as presidential electors to be voted for at the general election to be held that year. The chairman or secretary of the executive committee, or, in the absence of the chairman or secretary, a member of the committee designated by a majority of the other members of the committee, shall certify in writing to the secretary of state the names of all persons so nominated. A minor political party that has held a state or national convention for the purpose of choosing presidential candidates or that may, without a convention, certify those candidates in accordance with the procedure authorized by its party rules, shall certify the names of those candidates to the secretary of state. The certification shall be accompanied by a designation of a sufficient number of presidential electors to satisfy the requirements of law.
The secretary of state shall notify each presidential elector to attend, at a place in the state capitol which the secretary of state shall select, at twelve noon on the day designated by the congress of the United States, a meeting of the state's presidential electors for the purpose of discharging the duties enjoined on them by the constitution of the United States. Each such elector shall give notice to the secretary of state before nine a.m. of that day whether or not he will be present at the appointed hour ready to perform his duties as a presidential elector. If at twelve noon at the place selected by the secretary of state presidential electors equal in number to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may at the time be entitled in the congress of the United States, are not present, the presidential electors present shall immediately proceed, in the presence of the governor and secretary of state, to appoint by ballot such number of persons to serve as presidential electors so that the number of duly elected presidential electors present at such time and place plus the presidential electors so appointed shall be equal in number to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state is at that time entitled in the congress of the United States; provided, that each such appointment shall be made by a separate ballot, and that all appointments to fill vacancies existing because duly elected presidential electors are not present shall be made before other appointments are made, and that in making each such appointment the person appointed shall be of the same political party as the duly elected presidential elector whose absence requires such appointment to be made. In case of a tie vote the governor shall determine the results by lot. The electors making such appointments shall certify forthwith to the secretary of state the names of the persons so appointed and the secretary of state shall immediately issue to such appointees certificates of their appointment and notify them thereof. All of the state's presidential electors, both those duly elected who are then present and those appointed as herein provided, shall then meet and organize by electing one of their number as chairman and by designating the secretary of state as ex officio secretary and shall then and there discharge all of the duties enjoined upon presidential electors by the constitution and laws of the United States.
A presidential elector elected at a general election or appointed pursuant to section 3505.39 of the Revised Code shall, when discharging the duties enjoined upon him by the constitution or laws of the United States, cast his electoral vote for the nominees for president and vice-president of the political party which certified him to the secretary of state as a presidential elector pursuant to law.
(Ohio Rev. Code Ann. §§ 3505.10, 3513.11, 3513.111, 3505.39, 3505.40)
Actually you have to click on the link that says:
Summary: State Laws Regarding Presidential Electors
Clicking on that link will then return a PDF document that lists by state name.
Bottom line, I see nothing that prohibits this person in this document in the part pertaining to Ohio, listed above.
Rules only apply to Republicans.
Okay, thank you for the clarification. It appears it has validity. :)
1. women
2. homosexual men
If this had been a normal male elector, he may very well have stepped down but he never would have used the term "bullying" to describe the legal battle he was facing.
Is this hate crime?
No problem at all. I’m understanding the confusion on this thread now because Ohio’s rules are apparently more restrictive than the provisions laid out in the U.S. Constitution.
1. She is exceptionally beautiful, and many on FR will make extra allowances for that.
2. She is actually correct. We want to remove any grounds for a delaying lawsuit or for the thugs to have some basis when they inevitably claim that President Trump is illegitimate.
Three cheers for this responsible woman. I hope she will move on to the US House or Senate.
Yeah, and the Democrats will then sue to have the entire vote thrown out on the grounds that the Elector resigned, that the replacement procedure was illegitimate, that the proper notices weren't given within the proper time frame, etc., etc.
This is exactly what they were hoping would happen.
Yeah, and the Democrats will then sue to have the entire vote thrown out on the grounds that the Elector resigned, that the replacement procedure was illegitimate, that the proper notices weren't given within the proper time frame, etc., etc.
This is exactly what they were hoping would happen.
Just this one time, I swear, I read the article...
+1
They just need to figure it out and if she is violating, they need to replace her with someone committed to voting for the winner. If she is not violating, they need to offer reinstation.
Everyone is now showing that Ohio’s 18 electors all went for Trump, so it sounds like it was resolved one way or another, but I’ve not heard how it was resolved. I suppose she stepped down.
Check the US Constitution- something about NO person elected or getting paid by the Government can be an elector. Bill Clinton is a NY elector & He is getting a pension from the USA.
I think that is a violation.
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