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 ...
OR they can get five people on the Supreme Court to say it's no longer good. Problem solved and for all the reasons you cited, overturning them is virtually impossible.
This is why the SCOTUS is the most undemocratic and yet the most powerful of our institutions, a state the founders never imagined our would have tolerated. Something needs to be done.
LOL
GMTA
:D
Given the opinions of the liberal SC Justices, we are 2 picks away from rule by fiat.
Our Congress? The Congress infested with RINO excuses for representatives? The same Congress that rubber stamped everything O'DumDum did during his tenure?
RE: Is this legal???!
Yes it is I think. We’ve had faithless electors before.
But I don’t see how 6 democrat electors voting for someone other than Hillary Clinton is going to cause 37 Republican electors to not vote for Trump.
They can try, but in the end, this is what should happen:
1) IF a state votes Republican, the state sends GOP electors, not Dem ones. So they’d have to convince ALL GOPers to vote for HIllary. Unlikely.
2) The results have to be accepted by the Senate or Congress.
3) if the elections ends up in the Lower House (extreme long shot), Trump gets elected anyway.
So, this is all simply about “Sending a message”.
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Yeah, feel the Bern, that'll show em!
Why do so few here seem to not understand that the six elecorso that are going to vote are Democratic electors and they have nothing to say about the Republican electors which and who of course are different.
P-Funk!!!!!
Twenty-nine states legally require their electors to obey the results of the popular vote in their state.
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Apparently 21 states and DC give them some freedom.
Almost every state has a law in place to force the Electoral votes to follow the state to prevent bribery in buying votes. This is why there is no chance this goes anywhere and has never gone anywhere in US history.
The reason you see Politico pushing this crap is because they know that to sell their worthless stories they need to take advantage of reader’s fear and ignorance. It’s a headline grabber.
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.
No matter, it doesn’t matter what happens to a few Electors who might take the bait because Congress has to certify the Elector votes on January 7. Fat chance Congress will take up the cause of a few flaming liberals with their head up their *ss.
Outzeroed only by Hussain. Nobody can be zeroer than him.
IIRC, the SCOTUS cannot declare a part of the Constitution unconstitutional.............
Depends on which state one is speaking of. In many states they have alternates that would be allowed to vote and have the unruliness removed
This comes up every four years. It is mor community organizer crapola. The commies want a popular vote so they can rig it. The EC is designed to prevent this type of trickery
Tar and feathers....
Because the commies want a popular vote. They don’t care about the country only power
No, same as now, only smaller..........Washington DC was a swamp then, literally..............
No. The states are the ones that control this.
This is properly left to the states
You need to quit this nonsense
This is not helpful in any way shape or form
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