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To: NYer
If electors are going to be unbound, we'd see electors campaigning, collecting contributions, and running ads in hopes of getting selected.

More likely, though, the country would just abolish the electoral college.

This issue comes up when we talk about the 17th Amendment of the Constitution (direct election of Senators).

In a democratic age, bodies that aren't directly elected by the people lose power and risk being abolished.

We might wish it weren't that way, but it is and has been so for some time.

35 posted on 12/08/2016 2:26:05 PM PST by x
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Our Founding Fathers knew what they were doing.


38 posted on 12/08/2016 2:27:17 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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These electors don’t know what they are asking for. If they were unbound, they would become targets for blackmail and bribery or even kidnapping of family members to coerce their votes.

Clinton/Soros would even now be figuring out which 40 republican electors were most vulnerable to these tactics to create an “uprising of conscience” at the Dec 19th meeting. The only thing protecting their families is that they are not free to vote as they “wish”. Their families would be held hostage until after inauguration, and then the elector himself would have a tragic accident along with the family he thought he was saving. The MSM would cover-up and poo-poo any “conspiracy” theories about the suspicious deaths.

It would also become common practice to have sleeper agents pretend to be republicans so they could get elector slots years down the road.


113 posted on 12/09/2016 2:03:54 AM PST by Kellis91789 (We hope for a bloodless revolution, but revolution is still the goal.)
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