Constitution Party’s Scott Bradley on the Electoral College

Here’s how to make sure he’s the last one. Their votes are more than a meaningless rubber stamping of their states’ election results.

If the result of the November 8 election was overturned in the state, Hillary Clinton would still not have enough electoral college votes to become President. So, in reality, neither presidential candidate set out to get the popular vote.

President-elect Donald Trump would have picked up almost half of Virginia’s Electoral College votes under a proposal by a Republican state lawmaker from Spotsylvania County.

“The second thing that bothers me is that as everybody knows that during the campaign we have states, California, New York, and many others that are traditionally Democratic”.

A bit of history is in order here. According to media, the states where the Democratic candidate might consider the demanding of a recount are three.

That means, when all the votes are counted and Clinton’s popular-vote edge is official, it probably will in a manner of speaking have hinged entirely on the results in California.

Today of course, nearly every adult citizen over age 18 has the right to vote, protected by law.

Pegging a state’s electoral vote count to the size of its congressional delegation was a negotiated design, giving small states more influence proportionally than large states. In subsequent tweets Trump said “It would have been much easier for me to win the so-called popular vote than the Electoral College in that I would only campaign in 3 or 4 – states instead of the 15 states that I visited”.

Now scores of legal experts backing the plan believe there is a “strong case” to impeach Trump and strip him of the presidency. “It still gives extra credit to whoever wins the state because you get the two at-large votes”. And then what ends up happening is the campaign is about basically 16,17 battleground states in this country. But, presidents like to claim mandates in order to push their agenda, and you do not win a mandate when you lose the popular vote. Turnout might be higher in presidential elections.

The electors will cast their ballots December 19 while meeting in their respective states.

It didn’t. Clinton won the popular vote by somewhere between 1.5 and 2 percentage points, but lost the electoral college.

Part of the genius of our Constitution is its built-in flexibility. “Not only does SC fail to offer a statutory definition of what those charges might entail, but throughout the nation there has never been an elector prosecuted for failing to vote as pledged”.