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What will it take for 20 Repub Electors to vote for Clinton? Only 20 are needed.

Paralogic

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The 20 that will vote against what their party wants them to, could be from any state that got all the electorate votes for the Repub nominee.

Will they be jailed if they vote for Clinton? I read that the punishment would be either nothing or a monetary fine, not a personal incarceration. Also, the Constitution allows Electors to vote for whoever they want.

I could research this, but does anyone have the answer?
 
Paralogic said:
The 20 that will vote against what their party wants them to, could be from any state that got all the electorate votes for the Repub nominee.

Will they be jailed if they vote for Clinton? I read that the punishment would be either nothing or a monetary fine, not a personal incarceration. Also, the Constitution allows Electors to vote for whoever they want.

I could research this, but does anyone have the answer?
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What would have prevented it in 2012 or any other year?

If it happened, think constitutional crisis.
 
Paralogic said:
The 20 that will vote against what their party wants them to, could be from any state that got all the electorate votes for the Repub nominee.

Will they be jailed if they vote for Clinton? I read that the punishment would be either nothing or a monetary fine, not a personal incarceration. Also, the Constitution allows Electors to vote for whoever they want.

I could research this, but does anyone have the answer?
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Great point.

Also, who elects the electors? Who elects those who elect electors?

This is madness.
 
MaggieD said:
What would have prevented it in 2012 or any other year?

If it happened, think constitutional crisis.
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Think literal civil war.
 
MaggieD said:
What would have prevented it in 2012 or any other year?

If it happened, think constitutional crisis.
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I read that Electors voting opposite to their directed vote have been very rare, but not unconstitutional.

They could have voted opposite to their expected vote in 2000 too, but they have never done.

Maybe there is a way they can vote against the Electoral College winner, and for the popular vote winner. There's always a first in everything.
 
legalimmigrant said:
Great point.

Also, who elects the electors? Who elects those who elect electors?

This is madness.
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Does Stormfront not have a section for that on their website? I wouldn't know; I've never seen it.
 
legalimmigrant said:
Great point.

Also, who elects the electors? Who elects those who elect electors?

This is madness.
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The Electors are not elected. They are just chosen by their declared Party.
 
Goshin said:
Think literal civil war.
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What, the South will pick up arms and fight the Fed Government? LOL ... that may be a Southern fantasy, but it's not real any more. They all will be wiped out in a week.

I don't do much twitter... can you please start a hashtag #20electors to hopefully save the US! :-)
 
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Paralogic said:
What, the South will pick up arms and fight the Fed Government? LOL ... that may be a Southern fantasy, but it's not real any more. They all will be wiped out in a week.

I don't do much twitter... can you please start a hashtag #20electors to hopefully save the US! :-)
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Look at the map of the election by counties, not states. It isn't "The South."

The red part is where the folks live that would rise up to defend their vote.

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legalimmigrant said:
How do we know they are not plants from the other one?
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The party does, by choosing people that have been consistent in voting according to their party's instructions. This time it's different though, maybe some Repub Electors can be convinced to vote against their instructions, given the impending disaster that is coming, if that fascist is sworn as the US President.
 
Paralogic said:
What, the South will pick up arms and fight the Fed Government? LOL ... that may be a Southern fantasy, but it's not real any more. They all will be wiped out in a week.

I don't do much twitter... can you please start a hashtag #20electors to hopefully save the US! :-)
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Yeah, your right... It's not the south you are up against.. It's just these little red areas here on the map..

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Beaudreaux said:
Look at the map of the election by counties, not states. It isn't "The South."

The red part is where the folks live that would rise up to defend their vote.
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No need for a map. All cities vote Democratic and all rural counties vote Republican. This is a fact since several past elections.

I doubt any Repub voters other than ones from the South would rise up to do anything. Even if they do, they pretend they support the Constitution, so if the constitutionally approved electors voting for Clinton is not what they like, then they are hypocrites.
 
Paralogic said:
I read that Electors voting opposite to their directed vote have been very rare, but not unconstitutional.

They could have voted opposite to their expected vote in 2000 too, but they have never done.

Maybe there is a way they can vote against the Electoral College winner, and for the popular vote winner. There's always a first in everything.
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One I believe, did in 2000.
 
Paralogic said:
What, the South will pick up arms and fight the Fed Government? LOL ... that may be a Southern fantasy, but it's not real any more. They all will be wiped out in a week.

I don't do much twitter... can you please start a hashtag #20electors to hopefully save the US! :-)
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Far more than just the South. Far more. Don't expect the US military to fight for Hillary either, I really doubt they will.
 
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Beaudreaux said:
Look at the map of the election by counties, not states. It isn't "The South."

The red part is where the folks live that would rise up to defend their vote.

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That red area is also the place where the people who take the 2nd Amendment seriously live.
 
Goshin said:
Keep talkin'. I'm loading mags.
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You load maps.

There is still a constitutional way to get 20 electors to vote for Clinton. I'm not saying it will happen. I'm saying it will be legal and constitutional.
 
Paralogic said:
You load maps.

There is still a constitutional way to get 20 electors to vote for Clinton. I'm not saying it will happen. I'm saying it will be legal and constitutional.
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And a **** storm like you never imagined.
 
Goshin said:
And a **** storm like you never imagined.
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By who? The ignorant idiots that are telling their daughters it's OK to be sexually harassed and that they should vote sexual abusers as their President as long as they are racists? Only in the South, and they can be regulated.
 
Harshaw said:
That red area is also the place where the people who take the 2nd Amendment seriously live.
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And many people in the blue areas would pee their pants if they even had to hold a gun.
 
Josie said:
And many people in the blue areas are would pee their pants if they even had to hold a gun.
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Just sayin'.

Paralogic wants to pick a civil war with the side that has all the guns.
 
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