The media said that Trump was undermining democracy when he refused to blindly accept the results of the election. Now that he’s won, it’s the media that are undermining democracy. Despite the fact that Trump won the electoral college — and thus the presidency — fair-and-square, they’re still trying to send Clinton to the White House.
According to the Constitution, chosen electors of the Electoral College are the real people who will vote for president, when they meet on Dec. 19 in their respective state capitals.
However, there is technically nothing stopping any of the electors from voting their conscience and refusing to support the candidate to whom they were bound, or from abstaining from voting altogether.
There’s even a name for it: becoming a “faithless elector.”
The idea of electors reversing their vote is rarely discussed — and was most recently bandied about after the incredibly close 2000 election in which George Bush narrowly beat Al Gore. And electors going “faithless” is exceedingly rare.
Well over 99 percent of electors throughout American history have voted as pledged, according to an analysis done by the New York Times.
It does happen, though.
The last faithless elector reared his roguish head back in 2004, when a lone anonymous voter in Minnesota declined to vote for Democrat John Kerry and instead voted for Kerry’s running mate, John Edwards.
The rogue’s vote was purely ceremonial, as Bush already had 286 electoral votes, more than enough to ensure his reelection.
Faithless electors are technically barred in only 29 states from ignoring the will of the voters, though the penalties are light. And a faithless elector has never swung an election.
But given the high dissatisfaction with Trump among Republicans, a few faithless GOP electors could well go rogue next month.
The media clearly hope that this dream-scenario of theirs might occur. That’s because democracy doesn’t matter to the press. The only thing that matters is that they get their candidate in the White House.
Source: NY Post
In her dreams.
Trump has 306 electoral votes. He won so get over it.
Another liberal media outlet that should be boycotted to the point of closing .