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Report: Presidential electors planning to undermine Electoral College
The Hill ^ | 11/22/2016 | Harper Neidig

Posted on 11/22/2016 8:57:51 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

I don’t think it is legal. It should not be allowed.


121 posted on 11/22/2016 7:13:04 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: EBH

Oh, they want to abolish it until the first time it works against them.


122 posted on 11/22/2016 7:24:05 PM PST by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: Hostage

I don’t think that is correct.

They can be fined - though that is of questionable legality.

It’s leftists - mostly Sanders followers incorporated to give Hillary’s nomination a happy face - try to make a mess. It’s what they do. The question is whether Trump got his supporters as Electors. If he did, there’d be no reason to expect anyone who matters to change.


123 posted on 11/22/2016 7:45:13 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: NTHockey

You have been watching a branch of the Anti-trump folks attack each other and their towns, and commit ‘hate crimes’ against each other, right?


124 posted on 11/22/2016 7:48:38 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: ScottinVA

Scare tactics...to convince a bunch of people to wreck a system over what if. Like the furor over butterfly ballots.


125 posted on 11/22/2016 7:56:40 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: NTHockey
Surprise. "Electors" are simply political hacks who are accorded what most consider largely a ceremonial honor. They may very well be stupid. They may be 70 year old women whose deceased husbands were movers in the party. Mostly they are just nobodies relishing a potential moment in the limelight.
126 posted on 11/22/2016 8:18:35 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: NTHockey
Surprise. "Electors" are simply political hacks who are accorded what most consider largely a ceremonial honor. They may very well be stupid. They may be 70 year old women whose deceased husbands were movers in the party. Mostly they are just nobodies relishing a potential moment in the limelight.
127 posted on 11/22/2016 8:18:35 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: lepton

Electors receiving death threats have been interviewed where they explain that most states have laws that will replace them if they fail to vote as the state goes.

The following posts in this thread also talk about Congress as a backstop and other related matters:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3497225/posts?page=52#52

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3497225/posts?page=119#119


128 posted on 11/22/2016 8:30:49 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Aren’t there alternate electors in every state? It would seem these “faithless” ones should be replaced by their alternates and do what they agree to do when given the privilege to BE electors.


129 posted on 11/22/2016 10:07:35 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

I keep saying this. The election is not over until Trump takes the oath of office.


130 posted on 11/22/2016 10:09:20 PM PST by GSWarrior
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To: All; BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
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131 posted on 11/22/2016 10:10:51 PM PST by Golden Gate
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To: doug from upland

Is this true in every state ? Who vetted the electors to be sure they aren’t Trojan Horses ?


132 posted on 11/22/2016 10:42:40 PM PST by Kellis91789 (We hope for a bloodless revolution, but revolution is still the goal.)
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To: boomstick

Trump should tear the roof off the sucka!


133 posted on 11/22/2016 11:59:59 PM PST by golas1964
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Why do you think the media is pushing the Narrative that:

“Trump is either a NAZI or the people around him are NAZIs”

I think it is being done specifically to Spook the Electors...

Then a DNC operative will get close to the electors and sweet talk them and tell them that “ Hey you’ve seen the news, do you want to be responsible for seating the next Adolph Hitler as out next president, you can help save the united statues...”

And then they show them all the news articles about the supposed “Alt-Right Trump Nazi” controversy....

All they need need to do is to convince 20+1 electors....


134 posted on 11/23/2016 12:10:32 AM PST by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

The Hill is another “fake news” site.


135 posted on 11/23/2016 12:13:09 AM PST by a fool in paradise ( Democrats' last peaceful transfer of power was January 1981.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

This story is headed for the X-Files.


136 posted on 11/23/2016 12:15:22 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Report: Presidential electors planning to undermine Electoral College

They'll have to do a LOT of digging!


The most likely scenario, after all the counting is over,
gives Donald 306 electoral votes. Hillary Clinton will end up with 232.

http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/16/electoral-college-not-drop-trump-hillary/

137 posted on 11/23/2016 12:26:09 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Arm_Bears
Jeezy—The media is really flogging this scenario.


138 posted on 11/23/2016 12:43:33 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Hostage
There’s a high chance Politico folds in the next year as it has been proven they are propped up by subscriptions from the federal government and its contractors, by directives to buy their worthless material because it serves the progressive cause.


139 posted on 11/23/2016 1:03:27 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Carl Vehse

Four years of law school and all they can come up with is, “So’s yer mama!”?


140 posted on 11/23/2016 1:23:29 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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