Posted on 12/19/2016 8:17:15 AM PST by Helicondelta
Maine’s four Electoral College electors will gather today in the House of Representatives chamber — as will electors in state capitols across the U.S. — to cast the final votes for president. You didn’t read it here first but based on the results of the general election, Democrat Hillary Clinton claimed three of Maine’s four electoral votes while Republican President-elect Donald Trump earned the fourth with his convincing win in the 2nd Congressional District.
However, one of Maine’s electors could defect and it has nothing to do with Trump. David Bright, an elector for the Democrats, said Monday he intends to vote for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who won Maine’s Democratic caucuses in March.
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They do from time to time. For example, in 1976 one voted for Reagan instead of Ford. It’s different this time because even Obama spoke out against the EC
The ladies of the Sheen/Farrell/Cromwell knitting club should be happy they finally persuaded a changed vote.
Exactly. Congress should reject the defection and tally the results as electors were bound to vote. Set the precedent now, or democrats will abuse this tactic later.
I was hoping Vermont’s electors would do the same. Sanders got a lot of write-ins in that state (like 10%) despite no campaign, and he destroyed HRC in the primary.
Also I’m holding out hope some rural electors in states HRC won resist and vote their constituents (for Trump).
Looks like he didn’t. Too bad.
It very rarely happens in a very close election say a 270/269 but it happens regularly in elections where the spread is wider.
It is a "protest vote" and never really means anything because they very rarely vote for someone actually on the ballot.
Which means their vote is null.
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