Just a day after a Texas Republican "faithless elector" explained why he will not cast his vote for Donald Trump, The Denver Post reports two Democratic Colorado electors are filing suit challenging a state law requiring them to vote for the winner of the state’s popular vote. Their hope is to set a precedent enabling Republican electors in other states to vote for a third-party candidate to keep Trump from receiving 270 electoral votes.
As we noted yesterday,
“The election of the next president is not yet a done deal,” Texas elector Suprun writes the New York Times article. “Electors of conscience can still do the right thing for the good of the country. Presidential electors have the legal right and a constitutional duty to vote their conscience.”
If Suprun follows through on his promise next month, he would become the first “faithless elector” since 2004.
And now, as The Denver Post reports, two Democratic electors who pledged to support Democrat Hillary Clinton - the winner of the state’s nine Electoral College votes - now want to “vote their conscience and do their constitutional duty as intended by the framers,” said Jason Wesoky, the attorney who filed the suit.
The move is part of the long-shot effort to use the Electoral College vote to block Donald Trump from winning the presidency.
Polly Baca, a former state lawmaker, and Robert Nemanich are among the “Moral Electors” hoping to persuade Republican electors in other states to vote for a third-party candidate to keep Trump from receiving 270 electoral votes - and offering to shift their Democratic votes to a consensus pick.
Colorado law prohibits them from shifting their allegiances, and Republican Secretary of State Wayne Williams has pledged to replace them if they do so - two moves the electors argue violate the U.S. Constitution...
The electors believe the state law violates their First Amendment rights as well the 12th and 14th amendments, which respectively outline the process for electing a president and guaranteeing equal protection.
“Though Hillary Clinton and Timothy Kaine won the majority vote in Colorado and are qualified for office, plaintiffs cannot be constitutionally compelled to vote for them,” the lawsuit states.
“Plaintiffs are entitled to exercise their judgment and free will to vote for whomever they believe to be the most qualified and fit for the offices of president and vice president, whether those candidates are Democrats Republicans, or from a third-party.”
Williams responded with an uncharacteristically sharp retort, vowing to defend Colorado’s law and suggesting that the electors “succumbed to cabal, intrigue and corruption.”
“Instead of honoring the will of the Coloradans who voted for them, these two faithless electors seek to conspire with electors from other states to elect a president who did not receive a single vote in November,” Williams said in a statement.
“Make no mistake, this is not some noble effort to fight some unjust or unconstitutional law; rather, this is an arrogant attempt by two faithless electors to elevate their personal desires over the entire will of the people of Colorado. And in so doing, they seek to violate Colorado law and their own pledges.
“The very notion of two Colorado electors ignoring Colorado’s popular vote in an effort to sell their vote to electors in other states is odious to everything we hold dear about the right to vote,” Williams said.
“It is this type of evil that President Franklin Roosevelt warned us about when he cautioned that voters – not elected officials such as these faithless electors – are ‘the ultimate rulers of our democracy.’”
The group of electors (from Colorado and Washington) who have dubbed themselves the “Hamilton Electors,” are publicly made up entirely of Democrats. The group argues that Kasich is a compromise for GOP electors willing to buck Trump and join their effort, according to Politico. Ridulously, even Kasich has told them not to vote for him...
Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) is urging presidential electors not to cast a vote for him over President-elect Donald Trump, arguing that the effort will only deepen the divide in America.
“I am not a candidate for president and ask that electors not vote for me when they gather later this month,” Kasich said in a statement Tuesday.
“Our country had an election and Donald Trump won.”
We are almost speechless at the level of utter hypocrisy being puked forth by these sore-losing and media-brainwashed 'representatives' of our constitution. After the imbroglio around Donald Trump's unwillingness to accept the results at face value, it appears The Democrats are lashing out from their safe spaces because... as we have said before, they have never been told "no."