'What would constitute an Electoral College "December surprise "?'

[Guilded Lilly]

http://solartopia.org/what-would-constitute-an-electoral-college-december-surprise/

By Harvey Wasserman


...."Until we have a transparent system based on universal automatic voter registration, hand counted paper ballots, mandatory audited recounts, and more, we have nothing resembling a democracy.

What we DO have in 2016 is this: Donald Trump lost the popular vote by nearly three million votes but is apparently leading in the Electoral College with official victories in five states (Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida) where he lost in the exit polls. Those vote counts were not contested by Hillary Clinton, and green recount attempts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania were stymied.

Those wanting someone other than Donald Trump to become president must now persuade some 37 electors from states officially won by Trump to not vote for him. They must either switch those votes to Hillary Clinton or produce at least one electoral vote for a third candidate who would then be selected in the House of Representatives by a majority of the state delegations.

Such a “December Surprise” has never happened in US history. It would appear to be a Constitutional possibility. But the only certainty at this point seems to be that the clock is ticking.

Stay tuned."

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I know, I know, I KNOW...but I cannot let go of a miracle happening. Not yet.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. If 10 electors abstained, courteously

it would make headline news

not going to happen, the whole country is polarized by party, by
ideology ... the Electoral College is no different

Amazing that history is making no progress ... in region after region,
country after country, century after century, the same ideologies are
being played out ... it's all Darwin's ideas that arise from and contribute
to different conclusions. Survival-of-the-fittest, cutthroat competition,
God put us here on top to, take your pick 1)rule, 2) be benevolent, 3)
exploit the masses 4) plunder everything. Slavery, revolutions (US, French,
1848, Russian 1917, Irish rebellions, Fascism, all fit the same loose ideological
conflicts. It's competition over cooperation, struggle versus negotiation,
scarcity versus abundance.

[PoliticAverse]

2. If there were any 'faithless' Trump electors. n/t

[benld74]

3. THAT would be a Christmas Miracle

[PoliticAverse]

4. Final result: 5 Clinton faithless electors, 2 Trump faithless electors. n/t