Presidential Electors Confirm Obama as Next President

VOA ^ | 12/15/08 | Jim Malone

[steve-b]

Presidential electors met in state capitals around the United States on Monday to confirm last month's presidential election results that will make Barack Obama the 44th U.S. president on January 20.

It is a tradition that goes back to the beginning of the U.S. republic and the first presidential election in 1789....

In all but two states, the winner of the popular vote is awarded all of that state's electoral votes.

The exceptions are Maine and Nebraska, which award electoral votes both statewide and by congressional district.

The electoral vote count in the various state capitals is largely ceremonial in nature and there is little suspense about the outcome.

In Pennsylvania, clerk Clifford Levine announced the results after the presidential electors cast their votes in the state capital of Harrisburg.

"The electors of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have cast 21 votes for the honorable Barack Obama as President of the United States," said Levine....

[sickoflibs]

So does this end the birth certificate lawsuits?

[DieNarrin]

yep if it is just a tradition we can change things to reflect the more modern times of the global citizen

[mkjessup]

Every one of them that cast their vote for Obama needs to be sued.

Sued? (snort!) Yeah, we've seen how the court system works in this formerly free Nation.

Now it's time for Frontier Justice.

[sten]

and the push towards a Constitutional crisis continues...

[Uncle Chip]

Oh so then today he just became the person mentioned here:

"if the President elect does not qualify ..." [20th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

[reagan_fanatic]

"The electors of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have cast 21 votes for the honorable Barack Obama as President of the United States,"

*snort*

[Pilated]

I’ll be telling my future grandchildren how pathetic this BO person is and was................... Oh the facts we will relate and pass on. Truth, Justice and the American Way!

[El Gato]

It is a tradition that goes back to the beginning of the U.S. republic and the first presidential election in 1789....

Tradition? It's required by the FReeking Constitution.

The electoral vote count in the various state capitals is largely ceremonial in nature and there is little suspense about the outcome.

BS, it's an important step, and one of the circuit breakers to totally unqualified candidates. Once upon a time the electors were elected or appointed on their own, without a particular candidates name attached to them.

[El Gato]

Based on what law?

Although it helps, you don't need any steenking law to sue someone who causes you an "injury". Electing a person who is not "eligible to the office of President", injures each of us, and all of us.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“”I chust found out my Mother lied. I was boahn heah. I don’t haff to prove it now.””

You spelled proof incorrectly. LOL

DILLAN!!!

[Always Right]

Apart from a glaring factual error, does anyone else have a problem with this sentence?

There wasn't really an election. No citizen voted, it was just electors.

[El Gato]

I’ll be telling my future grandchildren how pathetic this BO person is and was................... Oh the facts we will relate and pass on. Truth, Justice and the American Way!

After you get out of the Reeducation camp, you'll have seen the error of your ways...or you wont' get out. Gonna be hard to relate all this to your grandchildren, if you are in the camps, or dead.

[El Gato]

There wasn't really an election. No citizen voted, it was just electors.

That's what some would like you to think. But only today was the next President elected. Even then the votes won't be officially counted for about 3 weeks.

IOW, it not only was an election, it was *THE* election.

[jeltz25]

it’ll be interesting to see if McCain gets all his electors. sometimes you have 1 or 2 vote for the VP or leave it blank.

[ozark hilljilly]

yep if it is just a tradition we can change things to reflect the more modern times of the global citizen

[trumandogz]

Disqualify Obama and you will have a President Biden in 36 days.