Posted on 12/15/2008 1:41:15 PM PST by 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....
(Excerpt) Read more at voanews.com ...
You asked — “Apart from a glaring factual error, does anyone else have a problem with this sentence?”
Well, I’m used to reading the MSM and I try to simply dismiss and “put out of mind” anything in error that I read... LOL...
Aside from that, it’s basically a “Constitutional issue” and not a tradition. Furthermore, if writers wanted to really be helpful, they would explain a bit of the reasoning behind the electoral college and why the popular vote was not chosen as the “methodology” for the President of the United States (and Vice President...).
But, they don’t. I don’t think I’ve ever read in a news article the reasoning behind that (although I know it...).
Even if these lawsuits continue to come in, there will be no resolution unless the SCOTUS is willing to cooperate and accept them for review but, up to now, they too play the game of CYA. Meanwhile there is the probability that we may install a possible foreigner in the WH.
So, now can we sue?
“Based on what law?”
Based on the Costitutionally required vetting that a perosn be natural born. No vetting appears to have been performed.
Electors don’t “confirm” jack snot. They cast votes.
Sedition, traitorousness, blindness, treason,
. . . . popular idiocies of the day.
Who said nations never commit suicide.
Sigh.
Confirm as President? The people just elect slates of electors, and then the electors actually vote for the President.
>>there will be no resolution unless the SCOTUS is willing to cooperate and accept them for review
Willing to cooperate with whom? The Constitution? The American people? The American people have no standing, at least not when the new owners of the US in China and Dubai have already made their decision.
At least we know that Biden was born in Pennsylvania.
The battle lines are drawn. He will never be my president. He has trampled on the Constitution, consorted with our enemies and removed voter fraud and other forms of chicanery from the list of unacceptible political practices.
From what I can tell, Biden is further to the left than Obama.
And as far as I can tell Biden has not released his BC.
A better headline “Electors Confirm First Kenyan as Next United States President: Half of Nation Yawns, Other Half Mourns”.
I don’t think so, but even if it does, what we need to do now is get legislation in place that sets up a verification process. If we survive Obama, this should never happen again.
And where in the Constitution or the US Code does it make electors responsible for that vetting?
Bears repeating
Good luck pursuing that legal theory. I'm guessing the lawyer you retain will demand cash up front.
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