Posted on 06/21/2019 5:27:26 PM PDT by Twotone
There is an interesting case about the political autonomy of the Electoral College working its way through the appeals process. In 2016, four Washington State electors voted for someone other than Hillary Clinton, joining three others that elected not to vote for the nominee their states’ popular votes chose. Washington State decided to enforce its law requiring the Evergreen State’s electors to vote for the Democratic Party’s official choice.
Last week I wrote about how the Progressive Movement transformed the United States, about a century ago, from a republic to a democracy. “Faithless elector” laws were a part of that metamorphosis, but Levi Guerra, Esther John, and Peter Chiafalo are challenging Washington State’s. All three were duly elected electors by the Washington Democratic Party’s state convention, and when given their ballots, the true presidential ballot in December 2016, that, unlike the November 2016 ballots we regular voters cast, was actually legally binding under our Constitution, these three electors voted for Colin Powell.
When the binding votes were counted, Donald Trump won 304 Electoral College votes. Hillary Clinton won 227. That sums up to only 531 votes. Yet there are 538.
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Faithless ballots should be illegal. Trumps electors were put through hell and nothing was done about it. The Monsoon of harassment, threats and bribe offers was unbelievable yet the perps totally got away with it.
I agree, and I don’t care which side is betrayed or which side benefits from the betrayal of faithless electors. We either have the rule of Law or we have anarchy, and the latter is a destroyer.
Have any faithless electors ever been punished for being faithless?
If this were allowed, Soros would up the payment to a million dollar.
A million for an electoral vote would be cheap, if it were binding on all electors.
But it isn’t so it would not be reasonable to expect that $268 million could by the presidency.
buy the presidency.
Faithless electors:
Colin Powell 3 (WA), John Kasich 1 (TX), Ron Paul 1 (TX),
Bernie Sanders 1 (HI), Faith Spotted Eagle 1 (WA)
The laws are illegal. We elect Electors not robots. There is no need for a person if the votes are mandated.
Even Dennis Prager gets it wrong.
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