It's back to the drawing board for me! I thought each State's Electoral College HAD to vote according to the State's popular vote. Now I see some are suing to change the process. I guess I need a primer reset on the EC all over again.
Judge orders Colorado electors to vote for Hillary Clinton
No, each state electors do not HAVE to vote for the candidate that won the popular vote in the State....
Only 28 states have written laws to STOP the electors from choosing the President...
the other State electors are unbound....at least as far as penalties the states have issued like a fine if they vote for someone other than what their State dictates.
My State of Maine, and Nebraska, have our electors set up as the FOUNDERS intended and also as electors were for our Nation in the first 4 Presidential elections...
Each elector given to each state for each congressmen that they have, vote in the manner that supports their own congressional district...states get 1 elector for each congressional voting district, and all states get 2 electors, representing their 2 Senators which is what gives the small states more power and favors the small states, because a small state has the exact same power as the large state who also only gets 2 electors to represent their senators.
Basically, the problem with the electoral college now, BECAUSE States have manipulated it and changed it from our founders day and intent, have set up WINNER TAKES ALL electors, and THAT is what is WRONG.....electors should vote individually...if the district they represent voted for Hillary, then their vote should go to Hillary, if the district the elector represents voted for Donald Trump, then their vote goes to Donald, THEN whomever won the State's Popular vote, gets the vote of the 2 extra electors the State gets to represent their Senators.
this way, voters in the election won't feel shafted and disenfranchised...it's also how democrats do their delegates in the Primary, winner does not take all delegates, each candidate gets the delegates they won, proportionally in the citizen vote.
Anyway, I want the electoral college, they just should go back to each elector voting for who their citizens wanted...
In my state of Maine, we have 2 congressional voting districts....yes, we are a low populated state...
one district's popular vote went to Trump, and the other district's popular vote went to Clinton.
So clinton got one elector, and Trump got one elector,
Clinton won the popular vote overall in the State
So she got the 2 extra electors representing two US senators
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Now, back to this in Colorado
electors are suppose to vote for who they feel and think and know, would be the best President for the NATION...the popular vote is suppose help the electors in their choice, but ultimately, when the electors vote on the 19th, the founders wanted them to be able to vote, individually, their conscience.
