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2016 Postmortem

speaktruthtopower

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15. I don't think so..

Reply to TrekLuver (Reply #9)

Sat Dec 10, 2016, 08:50 PM

Dec 2016

it dates back to the times when it took weeks for news of election results to spread, and for the electors to gather in one place to make sense of things.

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Russian Interference Could Give Courts Legal Authority To Install Clinton [View all] Stellar Dec 2016 OP

But Clinton et al are be "non partisan" or some bullshit uponit7771 Dec 2016 #1

Or have new elections UCmeNdc Dec 2016 #2

There is no Constitutional provision SickOfTheOnePct Dec 2016 #6

It's interesting this was never considered by the founders RonniePudding Dec 2016 #11

Overrated, perhaps...but I too thought this should have come out back then, nt Stellar Dec 2016 #13

K&R nt ProudProgressiveNow Dec 2016 #3

If the dems can't work this they have failed us flamingdem Dec 2016 #4

K&R! DemonGoddess Dec 2016 #5

a question about process- mopinko Dec 2016 #7

Look here... 2naSalit Dec 2016 #8

doesnt really answer the question. mopinko Dec 2016 #10

Thanks... 2naSalit Dec 2016 #16

i pointed out the money to be made in the bomb shelter boom mopinko Dec 2016 #17

It's fairly simple. Exilednight Dec 2016 #23

ah. so. they have to actually stand and deliver, eh? mopinko Dec 2016 #24

LOL !!! pangaia Dec 2016 #26

Wasn't a major purpose of the electoral college is to vote on the behalf of the people who really TrekLuver Dec 2016 #9

Most electors are party hacks RonniePudding Dec 2016 #12

I don't think so.. speaktruthtopower Dec 2016 #15

The EC should do it, but you know the partisan hacks won't. duffyduff Dec 2016 #14

Right! :((((. But can you imagine what the dispicables would do if we put Clinton in office? Auntie Bush Dec 2016 #18

knr triron Dec 2016 #19

We would be looking at another Civil War. briv1016 Dec 2016 #20

Let the babies riot. duffyduff Dec 2016 #21

It's not the riots I'm worried about. briv1016 Dec 2016 #22

knr triron Dec 2016 #25