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Colorado electors plan to challenge state law in bid to derail Donald Trump's victory
The Colorado Springs Gazette ^ | December 3, 2016 | Rachel Riley and The Associated Press

Posted on 12/03/2016 8:00:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: LS

It’s top three vote getters in the electoral college, not popular vote. If Romney or whoever gets 37 of the Republican electors, the vote goes to the house would pick between Trump the witch and whoever those voters picked.


81 posted on 12/03/2016 9:12:26 PM PST by sharkhawk (GO CUBS GO)
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To: lepton
1) this looks like it would only affect Colorado.

It is true that the case is currently in state court. I'm guessing the plaintiffs started it there because they're challenging a state law. Appeals may take it to Federal Court. Don't be fooled. The intent is to challenge similar laws nationwide.

82 posted on 12/03/2016 9:13:46 PM PST by SSS Two
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To: SpaceBar

“I would love to hear your take on the Denver airport that replaced Stapleton.”

It was pure Demonrat corruption, from top to bottom. I toured it several times under construction, and due to circumstances got to play on the deserted runways, a la Sebring.

The corruption led directly to Peña’s tour as Transportation Secretary even though the only thing he knew about transportation was how to transport his fingers into the money stream.

The next snow that hit Denver, nowhere near the Christmas Blizzard, he got the brilliant idea to pack the snow on the streets with garbage trucks. You can imagine how well that turned out.


83 posted on 12/03/2016 9:13:57 PM PST by Cololeo
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To: usafa92

Just a guess, but I would imagine they’re trying to set a legal precedent, so other state’s electors won’t have to follow the law.


84 posted on 12/03/2016 9:15:38 PM PST by Flaming Conservative
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The Left relies much on judicial activism to deny the vote.


85 posted on 12/03/2016 9:16:01 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Cololeo

Need I even mention the BAE baggage system fiasco?


86 posted on 12/03/2016 9:16:19 PM PST by Cololeo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is your brain on drugs.


87 posted on 12/03/2016 9:17:36 PM PST by mbrfl
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To: LS

The electoral college doesn’t have ballots. They write down whatever name they want on a piece of paper.


88 posted on 12/03/2016 9:24:18 PM PST by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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To: LS

The top three EV recipients. If an Elector goes rogue and votes for Mickey Mouse, as a natural-born citizen of requisite age, he could be elected by the House. So, if Romney or some other “better” Republican were to get even one EV, the House could, in theory, elect him.


89 posted on 12/03/2016 9:27:19 PM PST by calenel (The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Socialist Mafia.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Clinton won CO. Irrelevant.


90 posted on 12/03/2016 9:28:11 PM PST by xzins
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

91 posted on 12/03/2016 9:30:46 PM PST by BulletBobCo
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To: Jim Noble

The power to select the candidates rests with the state legislatures. The electors themselves are glorified messengers.

Somehow I am not buying your assertion that it is somehow unconstitutional to require any messenger anywhere (electors absolutely included) to deliver a message exactly as they received it.


92 posted on 12/03/2016 9:39:34 PM PST by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: SSS Two
There is no law binding electors nationwide.

The Constitution gives plenary power to state legislatures to appoint electors. No state can change that. No court can change that. No state law can change that. No state Constitution can change that.

Nothing can change that but a US Constitutional Amendment. Apparently these morons think the Florida Supreme Court overruled the US Supreme Court's unanimous decision in 2000. They didn't. It was in all the papers.

93 posted on 12/03/2016 9:40:09 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: basalt
Trump's electors are loyal to Trump. The failure of an elector to vote for the candidate who picked him for a slate never happens because he knows what side his bread is buttered on.

All of this posturing is dumbass stuff at its worst: "If you don't vote for the guy you're supposed to, we won't either, mmmmmm ... K?"

The only people who've announced they're going to do this are Democrats, whose EV ballot envelope might as well say "LOSER" in big blue letters. Not a single Republican has announced so much as a hypothetical interest in this laughable "plan."

94 posted on 12/03/2016 9:46:36 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: Jim Noble
I'm not so sure that you're right about that. If a state has plenary power to appoint electors, there is nothing in the Constitution that says the state legislature can't bind them to the legislature's decision as well.

Hamilton's argument is in the Federalist, that makes it obiter dicta from an important source, but it's nothing more than dicta nevertheless.

95 posted on 12/03/2016 9:50:58 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: calenel

Unless there were two of them getting one EV, in which case, neither would be eligible.


96 posted on 12/03/2016 9:55:41 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: FredZarguna

There was a Florida Republican elector that said he won’t vote for Trump.

He announced his resignation, and will be replaced by someone who can.

...but I think that’s it.


97 posted on 12/03/2016 9:58:19 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: FredZarguna

Yep, that might be a tangle.


98 posted on 12/03/2016 10:00:29 PM PST by calenel (The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Socialist Mafia.)
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To: lepton
Notice however, that he wants to continue to have a future in the Republican Party, so rather than not vote for Trump, he wisely decided to resign instead.

My point, that no Republican is stupid enough to participate in this silly "revolt," still stands, I believe.

99 posted on 12/03/2016 10:05:38 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: FredZarguna

Trump’s electors are loyal to Trump. The failure of an elector to vote for the candidate who picked him for a slate never happens because he knows what side his bread is buttered on.


If the party did it right. The Dems appear to have co-opted Sanders folks without converting them. Your scenario usually covers this...but they were particularly strident in trying to paper over the divisions there.

The main reason for the lack of events where an elector votes for someone else is simply because, for example, Trump supporters chosen to be electors will tend to favor Trump to a very high degree - as you post in your first sentence.

Posters don’t seem to get that electors are not faceless random people.


100 posted on 12/03/2016 10:07:22 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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