Did you know that a small group of presidential electors has pledged to vote for a Republican other than Donald Trump?
Well, they have – as many as 7 so far, and possibly more to come. They call themselves “Hamilton Electors”, named after Alexander Hamilton, who, they feel, gave them this latitude in the Federalist Papers (paper #68, to be exact).
But before you start counting how many of these electors would be needed to overturn last November 8ths result and make Hillary Clinton our president…
…please be aware that these “Hamilton Electors”, who come from Washington State and Colorado, are pledged to vote for Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump.
Yes, that’s right. You read that correctly. These geniuses, in an effort to remove Donald Trump as our incoming President, intend to withhold their votes from Hillary Clinton, his opponent. In other words, if they follow through with this, they will increase the Trump win, not decrease it.
Here, read all about it in Walker Orenstein’s article for the Tacoma, WA News Tribune:
A longshot campaign to block Donald Trump from the presidency using the Electoral College has added another renegade elector from Washington state, the group announced at the Capitol in Olympia on Wednesday.
State Democratic elector Levi Guerra, who lives near Vancouver, Wash., joined the small but outspoken outfit calling for members of the Electoral College to pick a Republican “consensus candidate” rather than Trump, when they decide the next president on Dec. 19.
The leaders of the campaign to block Trump hope to convince enough Democratic and Republican electors to unite behind a third candidate — or at least to win over enough Republican electors that Trump ends up lacking the 270 votes required for the presidency, in which case the decision would fall to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Colorado Democratic elector Michael Baca has joined Chiafalo’s movement, and Washington Democratic elector Robert Satiacum has expressed support for it. Satiacum made national headlines this year when he pledged not to cast his vote for Clinton. Satiacum, a member of the Puyallup Tribe, supported U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
The Guardian reported Wednesday that three other Democratic electors from Colorado have said they will join the anti-Trump protest.
Electors are nominated by their political party, and in most states, sign a pledge to vote for that party’s candidate if confirmed by the popular vote. I’ve read that some states have a minor fine, if this isn’t done.
Such disloyal electors are known as
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