Posted on 12/17/2016 8:16:33 AM PST by dirtboy
HARRISBURG - Thousands of emails land in their inboxes every day. Copies of the Federalist Papers and other books urging political courage are being mailed to their homes. They are even getting phone calls in the middle of the night.
On Monday, they will travel to the state Capitol to cast their votes to assign Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes to Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence during what has, in the past, been a ceremonial and largely unnoticed event.
Not this year.
This time around, the electors will be greeted by organized protests, urging them to assign Pennsylvania's electoral votes to anyone but Trump.
One elector, Ash Khare, said he and each of the 19 others have been assigned a plainclothes state police trooper for protection.
"I'm a big boy," said Khare, an India-born engineer and a longtime Republican from Warren County, who estimates he receives 3,000 to 5,000 emails, letters, and phone calls a day from as far away as France, Germany, and Australia. "But this is stupid. Nobody is standing up and telling these people, 'Enough, knock it off.' "
Pennsylvania is not among those states that require its electors to vote for the candidate who won the state. This year, that was Trump, who became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Pennsylvania in nearly three decades.
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He has so far.
I am trusting He will not let that change.
What a GREAT analogy!
Whatever happened to *Anyone who doesn’t accept the results of the election is a direct threat to our democracy?*
We need to broadcast that long and loud every time some liberal opens his or her mouth and complains about the election results. And then educate them about the fact that we are not a democracy after all.
That is a direct threat to our democracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ryQzn8RJQ
Clinton mocks Trumps refusal to pledge to accept election results: Some people are sore losers
If said FReeper freepmails me, I'll henceforth cite you.
Dems harass a brown-skinned GOP elector.
If it was the other way around.....I don’t need to say.
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