Postpone Electoral College Vote

It's a bit late for this, but its still worth thinking about and discussing.

Majority Want Monday’s Electoral College Vote Postponed In Wake Of Russia Scandal: New Poll

By Ryan Grim

WASHINGTON - A majority of American voters favor delaying the December 19th Electoral College vote until electors can be fully briefed on Russian interference in the election, according to a new poll conducted by YouGov. ...

https://fixtheelectoralcollege.net

Petition to all state legislatures:

Whoever wins the most votes should be elected president. Please join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, and end the Electoral College's power to overturn the popular vote.

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We believe every vote should count equally, regardless of where you live in the United States – EVERY vote in EVERY state should matter in EVERY presidential election. But thanks to the Electoral College, even though Clinton won over 2 million (and counting!) more popular votes, the Electoral College allowed Trump to win.

This is the fifth time in American history, and second time in five elections, where a presidential candidate who won the most popular votes lost the election. As a result, presidential candidates have no reason to pay attention to voters in states where they are safely ahead or hopelessly behind. Instead, candidates focus on “swing states” while largely ignoring the rest of the country.

Diary 12/12/16, While America Slept, the hostiles take over.

My fellow Americans (and the Russians looking in), I appreciate that I’m just another no-count working stiff, but the messenger isn’t the point, it’s the message that matters.  

We have one week - and I at least want to create this little public record at this one irretrievable moment in time - when America has an oh so tiny window of opportunity.  A moment when nothing less than a huge public out cry is required for Democracy to survive as we know it.  

Looking at events from a historical perspective makes clear that our government is literally in a hostile takeover attempt by the oligarchs.  You know, the Kochs, Putins, Tillersons (check out the collection of articles at the end of this.) and Trumps with their mega-corporate obsessions, Too Much Is Never Enough, for them.  Now we are on their menu.  The concerns of regular citizens like us, don’t mean squat to them.  Think about it.  This is for keeps.  

Look at the self-interested, self-certain people Trump is putting in charge of important agencies.  I mean people who are passionately hostile and have no desires but to cripple the agencies they are being putting in charge of - no good faith whatsoever.  What's that got to do with the American Way?  These agencies were created for a reason.  That’s more like treason than guidance!

We depend on healthy social and environmental protections, even if the greed blinded oligarchs can’t grasp that concept!

Why are we allowing this to go down?

Now, today, now is the time to demand our leaders Democratic and Republican act. 

DEMAND THAT OUR DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN LEADERS ACT AND RELEASE THE TRUMP AND RUSSIAN FILES - WE THE PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW HOW MANY FOREIGN OBLIGATIONS BIND THIS NEW PRESIDENT! 

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW BEFORE IT CARRIES OUT ITS CONSTITUTION DUTY DECEMBER 19TH !   

Today is the 12th and it will be gone in a flash!

WE HAVE THIS ONE BALANCE AND CHECK, THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, THAT WE AMERICANS SHOULD NOT PASS UP !  OUR POLITICIANS NEED OUR VOCAL SUPPORT AND DEMANDS !

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THEN ON JANUARY 3RD WE NEED TO DEMAND THAT THE DEMOCRATIC SENATE GIVE MERRICK GARLAND THE VOTE HE’S BEEN WAITING FOR, FOR THE PAST YEAR.  

Why not protest FBI? - Demand Release of Trump's Entanglement Files

For all the protests I read about after Trump’s election, I don’t recall hearing anything indicating that those protests rose above venting, that's a big shame.  

What we need is protesting with a determined purpose - 

a reasoned legitimate demand. 

In front of the FBI and the CIA 

and where ever else needed, 

to drive home the case that We The People 

want the Trump’s Files released!  

We The People have a right to learn about 

all of Trump’s entanglements !  

NOW BEFORE THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE MEETS!

This is for keeps!

Democracy Use It or Lose It!

The following is a collection of the articles I've lifted quotes from, I've also included links to their full stories.  I hope this collection will help inform.  Feel free to copy and pass along.  CC

December 11, 2016:

Trump vs. Congress on Russian hacking

Senators Want Investigation Into Russian Election Hacking

CIA At War With FBI – Over Trump

Intelligence figures fear Trump reprisals over assessment of Russia election role

December 10, 2016:

Dem congressman: Electoral College has 'right' to weigh Russian hacking

Mr. Trump responds to CIA report of Russian Hacking  ** UPDATED **

Schumer calls for full investigation by Congress of Russian interference in U.S. elections

It’s looking more and more like the election was swung by the FBI in virtual ‘alliance with Putin’

KRUGMAN: Trump will turn America into an 'all-out kleptocracy' like Russia and Ukraine

The Russian Hack Cracked?

How Russian Hackers Can Blackmail Donald Trump—and the GOP

Calls Grow For A New Presidential Election To Be Held After Russia Meddled To Help Trump

Ex-CIA Operative Wants an Election Re-Do Amid Reports of Russian Interference

June 20, 2016:

Is the Kremlin Readying for a Trump Administration?

FBI and US Representative contact links.  

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Dem congressman: Electoral College has 'right' to weigh Russian hacking

By Kyle Cheney 12/10/16 

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/electoral-college-russian-hack-david-cicilline-232469

… Cicilline appears to be the first member of Congress and the highest-ranking elected official in the country to endorse the notion that electors aren’t simply rubber stamps for their states’ popular vote. Earlier Saturday, he retweeted a Rhode Island-based national security expert who argued that the intelligence community “must brief electoral college about Russia before vote.”

Cicilline’s comments come amid the explosive determination by the U.S. intelligence community that Russia interfered in the presidential election in support of Donald Trump. Trump’s transition team has forcefully denied the conclusion.