Featured Can, or should the Electoral College stop Trump from being President?

Yes, itis legal. The Electoral College voters are not bound by law to vote for a particular person. There are a few states where a fine can be imposed. My understanding is that Washington State can fine such a person $1000.00.

From: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...illary-clinton-instead-donald-trump/93951818/

According to FairVote, there have been 157 “faithless electors” in the history of the U.S. But even that figure is deceptively high. Of those, 71 votes were changed because the original candidate died before the Electoral College cast its votes. In all, the group states, “82 electoral votes were changed on the personal initiative of the elector.” None has affected the outcome of a presidential election.

The most recent example occurred in 2004 when an anonymous elector from Minnesota, pledged to vote for Democrat John Kerry, cast a presidential vote instead for Kerry’s running mate, John Edwards, some believe by mistake. In 2000, a Democratic elector from the District of Columbia declined to cast her vote “to protest the lack of congressional representation for Washington, DC,” FairVote notes.

“Presidential Electors are theoretically free to vote as their consciences dictate, something the founders anticipated Electors would indeed do under Hamilton’s Electoral College invention,” Laurence Tribe, a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School, told us via email.

 

IF that was the case, then we should have not electde PresidentObama again, as MANY of us had real agenda/policy isues with him!

 

Yes.
No.

 

I think the EC is massively flawed, but we don't need any additional circus acts.

Under the system we have, Trump won, period.

To deny him the Presidency at this point in time would result in a level of backlash we haven't seen in a long time.

I didn't support Trump, and I don't like the fact that he is going to be President. Even so, he won, and whether it is legal to get around that fact doesn't really matter. Even if we CAN do it, we SHOULDN'T do it.

 

Yes they Can vote for whomever they want, but No they should not vote against Trump. He won the EC fair and square (even if Trump himself tried to discredit his win ironically)

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Would the Dems had maked such a outcry if Russia was said to have elected President Obama?

 

According to Clinton if one does not accept the election results they are a threat to democracy.

 

As a #nevertrumper I even think the Russia angle is a ridiculous accusation. But I also believe that if the shoe was on the other foot the Republican would be just as outraged if their was the slightest suggestion that Foreign powers helped elect a democrat. If 2016 has shown anything is is how tribal both sides are and will defend their tribe of an action while attacking the other for the same action. Makes me glad to not be in either major party as the hypocrisy.

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Yes they can, but no they should not.

 

It's a ruse, The liberal progressives and the marxist press supposedly want the EC victory invalidated because Trump is not qualified to be president and Hillary won the popular vote.

But their desperate attempts show that they really do not want what Trump is offering - namely a conservative SCOTUS to ward off socialism/marxism and constitutional lawlessness to achieve that end result (IMO of course).

How blind must they think the irredeemable deplorables who cling to their guns and bibles are?
Who's to blame (according to them) for the apparent Trump/Pence victory?

Fox News did it.
Comey did it.
Fake News did it
The Rust Belt used defective voting machines that's why.
The Russians hacked the voting machines that's why.
The Rust Belt counts were wrong and needed to be recounted that's why.
The Russians hacked the DNC email that's why.

Wait! how about their favorite? - Bush did it!

Real answer Hillary and her extra-curricular activities did it.

So there is no reason to side step the Electoral College vote.

HankD

 

There is no valid reason now, as no reported that source leak was not Russia, but tjhose in DNC itself!

 

Obama won both the popular vote and the electoral college vote. So, yes he won fair and square regardless of whether you like him or not.

Trump did not win the popular vote. No mandate for him from the majority of people who voted.

But your answer has nothing to do with the legality of an electoral college voter changing his vote.

 

In the state of Illinois, the population density of Chicago and its suburbs far outweighs basically the rest of the state. Chicago is primarily democrat; so Illinois elections, as a generality, tend to favor democrats. The "voice" of the rest of the state is left unheard; and thus, issues that affect the less densely populated areas tend to be ignored.

I believe there's a valid reason our forefathers implemented the electoral college.