Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: StoneRainbow68
Like all things, this is simply bout Trump. 🙄
16 posted on 05/13/2020 5:00:22 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]


To: Magnum44

No, I mean i don’t get the particulars of the dispute. Faithless electors have always been allowed to exist, but they will never change an outcome because they are loyalists to whatever candidate chose them, and they only turn faithless when changing their vote doesn’t matter.

So what are we doing here?


19 posted on 05/13/2020 5:03:23 AM PDT by StoneRainbow68
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies ]

To: Magnum44

>>Like all things, this is simply bout Trump.

Paultards wanted to do this in 2004 to replace GBush with Ron Paul.

And Bernie Bros wanted to do this in 2016.

I think they tried doxing some electors in 2016 to intimidate some pledged to Trump to vote for Hillary instead.

ultimately they would try to seat “enemy camp” voters as electors.

https://www.npr.org/2016/12/19/506188169/donald-trump-poised-to-secure-electoral-college-win-with-few-surprises

That was despite a pitched effort by some on the left who wrote letters to Trump electors trying to persuade them to switch their votes or not vote at all and keep Trump short of the 270 needed.

Not only did it not happen, but more electors tried to defect from Hillary Clinton Monday than from Trump, by a count of eight to two. Three Democratic electors in Maine, Minnesota, and Colorado tried to vote for candidates other than Clinton. The electors’ votes, however, were disallowed because of state rules binding them to the statewide popular vote winner.


44 posted on 05/13/2020 5:52:36 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson