Posted on 12/03/2016 8:00:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s the pot head state. They are too stoned to understand that they are already voting for Hillary.
Where’s that, ‘Oh no, not this s-— again,’ meme?
Perhaps you're right. But isn't there more than just a little bit of tension between the positions that
1. Electors should be free to exercise independent judgment and must not be constrained by laws that require them to vote for the winner of the presidential election in the state.
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2. Electors should not exercise independent judgment. They should be compelled to vote for the nationwide popular vote winner.
Of course, intellectual consistency has never been a strong suit for Democrats.
If Trump didn’t get 270 then house of Representatives votes. They choose from the top 3 electoral vote winners. If a nevertrumper got 1 vote he would be eligible candidate along with Trump and Hillary.
That pic reminds me of when I was about 6 years old. We were in the process of moving, and I wanted to play with an electric toy. My Mom said I couldn’t as the electricity had already been turned off.
I pried a Bobby pin apart, and stuck it in the wall socket. My Mother lied.
Nominee?
You mean, the president-elect? The next president?
That’s what the vice-president-elect is for.
BTW, abducted by a foreign power? So, where would the Secret Service have been? Where would the “then current” president have been? That would have called for war, believe it or not, so, who in their right minds, in that “foreign power”, have undertaken an event that would have triggered certain war?
A healthy fear of the pitchfork army keeps the electors in line, not these state laws that may not hold up to a constitutional challenge. There would be serious civil unrest in the wake of a rogue electoral college resulting in a president the people did not elect. Of course the Democrats desire such a result, many want our institutions to burn, to be replaced by mob rule.
Good luck with that.
This insanity all started in 1983 with the election of Federico Peña, after a two-foot Christmas Blizzard. Mayor McNichols, assuming Coloradans could deal with a snowstorm didn’t get the streets all plowed and summery right away. We then got “Imagine A Great City”, and Colorado went straight downhill ever since. We also got a new airport, where an expansion to the current one would have worked wonderfully, but of course the land deals had to take priority. Peña got rich and we got screwed.
Does ANYONE read the constitution?
The House can ONLY select from the top 3 vote getters.
Last I saw “someone like Romney” isn’t on the ballot.
This reaches new levels of stupidity.
Banal.
The Electoral College covers ALL contingencies- notably the ones idiots can’t concieve of.
I would love to hear your take on the Denver airport that replaced Stapelton.
what if there are three nominees with EC members, and no one nominee has a simple majority of EC members?
The fallback is that the EC can still function as the FFs intended in a pinch. The notion of reeplacing human ECs with automatic votes does not cover various corner cases that the FF EC design does.
“I have no doubt that laws binding electors, once they have been appointed, are unconstitutional.”
Perhaps, but the Democratic Party in Colorado is responsible for keeping their Electors in line.
From the National Association of Secretaries of State in their section covering Colorado Electors:
“If any vacancy occurs in the office of a presidential elector because of death, refusal to act, absence, or other cause, the presidential electors present shall immediately proceed to fill the vacancy in the electoral college. When all vacancies have been filled, the presidential electors shall proceed to perform the duties required of them by the constitution and laws of the United States.”
http://www.nass.org/component/docman/?task=doc_download&gid=1864&Itemid=391
It seems pretty clear to me that it’s up to the Dims to fix this. Or not.
1) this looks like it would only affect Colorado.
2) are these Sanders supporters that the DNC attempted to absorb without converting? A sort of identity politics move that is backfiring?
More “progressives” who want to change the rules when ever things don’t go their way.
I bet it was hell playing cards or board games with these whining brats when they were kids.
No one is "on the ballot" yet. The Electoral College hasn't met yet. It is possible (though very highly unlikely) that faithless electors could prevent any candidate from having a majority and, at the same time, provide a third name for the House of Representatives to consider.
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