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[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

The 2016 Electoral College vote had the most faithless electors since the 19th Century, and was the first in 100 years to have more than one. From Wiki-Pooh:

In the 2016 United States presidential election, ten members of the Electoral College voted or attempted to vote for a candidate different from the ones to whom they were pledged. Three of these votes were invalidated under the faithless elector laws of their respective states, and the elector either subsequently voted for the pledged candidate or was replaced by someone who did...

As a result of the seven successfully cast faithless votes, the Democratic Party nominee, Hillary Clinton, lost five of her pledged electors while the Republican Party nominee and then president-elect, Donald Trump, lost two. Three of the faithless electors voted for Colin Powell while John Kasich, Ron Paul, Bernie Sanders, and Faith Spotted Eagle each received one vote. The defections fell well short of the number needed to change the result of the election; only two of the seven defected from the winner, whereas 37 were needed to defect in order to force a contingent election in Congress (a tally of less than 270).

I think it's hilarious that with all the Sturm und Drang about Trump, it was the odious Hillary who had more faithless electors. Nelson Muntz says "Ha Ha!"

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Wikipedia (obviously) doesn't want to mention many of the interesting details Breitbart noted at the time:

Lessig claimed he had 20 electors lined up

Michael Moore offered to pay faithless electors' fines

A California elector filed suit with the lunatic idea of establishing a nationwide precedent in 39 days

It goes on for a while if anyone's feeling nostalgic 😄

[–]Shatner_Ghost 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Yes --- and it's amazing that NONE of that is criminal -- unlike trying to insert fake electors, declaring martial law to grab voting ballots, or having an insurgency attempt to stop the electors from voting.

Also; Trump keeps winning with fewer votes with the Electoral College. Same with Bush. You are pretending that Trump didn't suck at running the country as well.

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

declaring martial law

This happened on what date precisely?

[–]Shatner_Ghost 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No set time -- there were occasions where he floated the idea, asked about it and got struck down, or it was perhaps the reason he fired his top military officer. https://news.yahoo.com/trump-raised-idea-imposing-martial-120057309.html?guccounter Supported by Michael Flynn; https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-should-declare-martial-law-michael-flynn-retweeted-his-now-banned-account-1654226 Got even Giuliani freaking out about it; https://www.businessinsider.com/giuliani-trump-end-up-in-prison-martial-law-after-election-2022-2?op=1 Or to create a riot as a backlash to his actions where he could respond with increased violence and declare an emergency; https://www.rawstory.com/trumps-martial-law/

He either was told it wouldn't work enough times, or couldn't get anyone to help him start it -- but it was not for lack of trying nor conscience that prevented him from doing so.

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

So it didn't happen?