electoral college voting now

follow here the dumbest exercise in the world https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/14/politics/2020-electoral-college-vote-tracker/index.html

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follow here the dumbest exercise in the world https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/14/politics/2020-electoral-college-vote-tracker/index.html

 

I thought burpees were the dumbest exercise?

The New York Times - Electoral College Voter: Long an Honor, and Now Also a Headache

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Casting votes in the Electoral College has been a routine part of election mechanics, but this year electors have been thrust into the cross hairs of President Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the results.

 

For decades, Electoral College voters have served as the rubber-stamping bureaucrats of American democracy, operating well below the political radar as they provided pro forma certification of a new president. 

 

Despite its procedural nature, the role has long been considered an honor, bestowed as a way to recognize political stature or civic service.

 

This year, the Electoral College is another piece of routine election mechanics thrown into the cross hairs of President Trump’s sustained assault on voting integrity. ...

 

And as small-town electors face harassment and more prominent figures adapt to increased security measures, a duty long considered a privilege has also become a headache. 

 

Even as the electors prepared to vote on Monday, Mr. Trump on Sunday railed on Twitter against the “MOST CORRUPT ELECTION IN U.S. HISTORY” and suggested that swing states could not certify “without committing a severely punishable crime” - further raising concerns about electors’ personal security. ...

 

The swing states have all certified, with no "faithless electors".

Surely at this point Trump has committed multiple easily verifiable instances of election interference? A president telling electors they could go to prison for casting their vote against him his just one example. Is this not a crime?

EDIT: I had been more on the side of not prosecuting Trump in an effort to not further divide the nation; but I've changed my mind after 5 weeks of him blatantly attempting to undermine the fundamentals of democracy and and staging a coup through lies and intimidation.

Paul1977:

 

Surely at this point Trump has committed multiple easily verifiable instances of election interference? A president telling electors they could go to prison for casting their vote against him his just one example. Is this not a crime?

 

EDIT: I had been more on the side of not prosecuting Trump in an effort to not further divide the nation; but I've changed my mind after 5 weeks of him blatantly attempting to undermine the fundamentals of democracy and and staging a coup through lies and intimidation.

 

Fully agree. That miserable SOB needs to be hammered with every possible charge that can be come up with. He should be arrested, sued, prosecuted for criminal and civil liability, put in stocks, penalised for tax evasion, jailed for corrupting the youth, anything and everything that gives a Republican nightmares.  

The anti-democracy sell-outs have already convinced themselves that there is a huge plot to bring down their dear leader. They aren't going to change that belief so let's make it real for them! Put the orange one in a suit that matches his complexion. Decoif him, decravat him, incarcerate him, and may he rot in eternal shame!

"Congressman [Paul Mitchell, Republican of Michigan] cites Trump's efforts to overturn election in announcing decision to quit GOP"

 

In an exclusive interview, Rep. Paul Mitchell, Republican of Michigan, told CNN that his disgust and disappointment with President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the election have led him to request that the Clerk of the House change his party affiliation to "independent," and to notify GOP leaders in a letter that he is withdrawing his "engagement and association with the Republican Party at both the national and state level."

 

Mitchell, who is retiring at the end of this session of Congress, says he fears that the House GOP leadership's participation in the outgoing President's conspiracy theories and attempts to disenfranchise millions of American voters to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory could cause "long-term harm to our democracy."
It is "unacceptable for political candidates to treat our election system as though we are a third-world nation and incite distrust of something so basic as the sanctity of our vote," Mitchell wrote in his letter, which was sent Monday.

 

 

Rikkitic:  ...  Put the orange one in a suit that matches his complexion. Decoif him, decravat him, incarcerate him, and may he rot in eternal shame!

 

Congratulations President Biden! The toddler is no longer in charge of the day care.

The Washington Post - President Trump has become a delusional character out of Monty Python

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A wise prophet who went by the name Monty Python must have had the current president of the United States in mind when he came up with a character known as the Black Knight.

 

In a hilarious scene from the 1975 film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” King Arthur and his squire encounter a figure in black armor as they are traveling through a forest in search of knights for his Round Table. 

 

Instead of joining them, the Black Knight attempts to block the king from crossing his bridge - which is barely more than a plank of wood - and declares: “You shall die.”

 

Amid the ensuing swordfight, the inept knight loses his limbs, one by one, until he is left with only a torso and a head. 

 

“'Tis but a scratch,” he insists. “I’ve had worse.” ...

 

That’s about where things stand for President Trump, the Republican leaders who continue to enable him, and the delusional hordes that Trump can summon to the streets with a tweet.

 

Wiki - Black Knight (Monty Python)

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"Congressman [Paul Mitchell, Republican of Michigan] cites Trump's efforts to overturn election in announcing decision to quit GOP"

 

 

In an exclusive interview, Rep. Paul Mitchell, Republican of Michigan, told CNN that his disgust and disappointment with President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the election have led him to request that the Clerk of the House change his party affiliation to "independent," and to notify GOP leaders in a letter that he is withdrawing his "engagement and association with the Republican Party at both the national and state level."

 

Mitchell, who is retiring at the end of this session of Congress, says he fears that the House GOP leadership's participation in the outgoing President's conspiracy theories and attempts to disenfranchise millions of American voters to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory could cause "long-term harm to our democracy."
It is "unacceptable for political candidates to treat our election system as though we are a third-world nation and incite distrust of something so basic as the sanctity of our vote," Mitchell wrote in his letter, which was sent Monday.

 

 

That's all well and good but why didn't he take this stand in response to any number of other misdeeds in the last 4+ years? He only pokes his head above the parapet when he's retiring from Congress. Typical spineless GOP representative.

Trump tweets Barr is on the way out. The tone is not harsh.