Posted on 11/22/2016 8:57:51 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
A number of Democratic Electoral College electors are planning to use their votes to undermine the election process in opposition to President-elect Donald Trump, Politico is reporting.
Some electors are lobbying their Republican counterparts to vote for someone other than Trump in an attempt to deny him the 270 votes required to elect him, according to the news outlet. They are also contemplating whether to cast their votes for someone other than Hillary Clinton
With at least six electors already vowing to become "faithless," the defection could be the most significant since 1808, when six Democratic-Republican electors refused to vote for James Madison, choosing vice presidential candidate George Clinton instead.
The electors acknowledge that it is unlikely that they will be able to block Trump from gaining office, Politico reported, but they are optimistic that their effort will raise enough questions about the Electoral College to reform or abolish it.
"If it gets into the House, the controversy and the uncertainty that would immediately blow up into a political firestorm in the U.S. would cause enough people — my hope is — to look at the whole concept of the Electoral College," one of the electors told Politico.
It’s unclear how many, if any, Republicans have signed on to the effort.
Twenty-nine states legally require their electors to obey the results of the popular vote in their state.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
No one will switch on the GOP side. These are hand picked electors. They are chosen because of their loyalty.
Maybe at most we have one lunatic that wants to make a name for themselves...but that would be it.
All this shit will amount to nothing.
“Let’s be fair here; if the Hilldabeast had won,conservatives would be petitioning and pressuring Electors to jump ship as well.”
BS!!! When did conservatives or Republicans try to switch electors? Be specific.
The word “if” is a confusing one?
On what experience do you make your premise that “IF .... .” There is no background to make that premise. Nixon, who had every right to challenge his loss in 1960 in the face of Daley chicanery in Chicago, chose not to do so because of the harm it would do to the Republic. The only person to challenge an election in the past was Albert Gore.
Democrats acting up. So what. All they can do is deviate from their Hillary vote.
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