Idaho Trump electors report ‘barrage’ of harassing messages urging them to change votes

Spokesman Review ^

[IdahoVeteran]

Reports from one of 21 states not binding electors to the state results. Activists have distributed contact information including FB, phone and cell numbers, email addresses. Electors report barrage of abuse. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/nov/14/idaho-trump-electors-report-barrage-of-harassing-m/

[rwa265]

I doubt if anyone will mess around with this elector from Missouri:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/thepeoplewhopickthepresident/2016/the-anti-abortion-radical

[davidb56]

I wouldn’t be too concerned for their safety, as almost everyone here conceal carries. No permit needed in Idaho. People have less of a tendency to get in someones face. The LE here will take care of the ones that threaten physical assault.

[Chode]

sounds like vote tampering to me...

[Visioneer]

Sadly, CWII = Martial Law = No Constitution!

[fr_freak]

Where did this come from? The article says nothing about threatened lives. In fact, the electors quoted in the article said the comments weren't even intimidating at all.

Interesting take on the article. Let's have a look:

Locke said, “It is concerning to me. It does feel like some level of intimidation.”

Well, there goes your theory about the electors not being intimidated. Now let's take a look at this:

They’ve got our home phone numbers, our cell numbers, our emails, our Facebook. We’re just getting an orchestrated barrage from the left.”

“They attack my religion, they attack my politics, they tell me that I must be a terrible father, I must be a terrible American, they use foul language – every swear word,” he said. “They’re just trying to steal this thing. They won’t be able to do it, but they’re trying.”

So, we have electors in Idaho who have been doxxed, now every left-wing nutbag in the world knows all their contact information and they are inundating them with profane insults and accusations. Are you, at all, familiar with the concept of an implied threat? Doxxing, by itself, is a form of intimidation. That is what it is used for, every time.

How does this sound to you, especially if it were left on your home number: "Hey! You better vote for Hillary, you piece of sh*t!"

But all of this is academic. I am a lifelong Californian. I know how these a-holes work. If there aren't any threats yet, there will be soon enough. The ones who posted the electors' personal info should be prosecuted.

[unread]

"I consider them enemies of the U.S. constitution"

I fully agree.... They've been a pain in the butt since the Lyndon Johnson days...

[Right-wing Librarian]

It should be and can be made to be illegal. Suggest it to DJT and he may well include it in one of his pieces of legislation.

[OldNewYork]

‘Activists’.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

There is a disturbing trend on FR toward restricting 1st Amendment Free Speech rights since Trump has won. Remember, whatever is done by you can be done to you. Support Free Speech. (To the extent those people have been told to cease contact and still do, harassment laws address conduct, not speech.)

We should cultivate an attitude of total war when it comes to Democrats, since, whether we do it or not, the Dems will do it to us first chance they get.

[Ronin]

We need to counter the petition on the White House site with one of our own, demanding that Obama extend Secret Service protection to the electors. The harassment they are facing is unconscionable.

[elcid1970]

No, troll, “Change your vote to Hillary Clinton or I’ll come and kill you!” does merit a criminal conviction.

[Mad Dawgg]

There seems to be some kinks in the Switch-Electors-To-Hillary system...

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Send them to me, I’ll tell them where and how hard they can shove it.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Committing voter fraud and browbeating somebody to change their vote is not a right.

[reaganaut]

Free speech is one thing, this is harassment. There are legal limits on free speech such as harassment, threats etc.

[reaganaut]

//the right to “mess with electors” is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. The same 1st Amendment that guarantees Free Speech also guarantees the right to redress grievances.//

No it doesn’t and harassment is not right to redress grievances. You have a twisted view of what Free Speech means.

[reaganaut]

37 of them would have to be faithless. Not gonna happen. Even if they were to deny Trump the 270, it would go to a Republican Congress who would just pass it back to him. The fact people are even trying shows that schools no longer teach civics.

[reaganaut]

Rumor has it that one of the South Dakota electors (a state that went 70% for Trump - over 90% if you don’t count the indian reservations) sent his family to a friend’s hunting lodge to stay until the vote.

[reaganaut]

They don’t care. They think harassment is a good thing if it is against conservatives. The laws only apply to the libs in their minds.

[reaganaut]

Its already illegal duma$$. Its called harassment and stalking.