RE: So Now This Is Getting Interesting.
December 13, 2016 at 11:57 am
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2016 at 12:31 pm by Tonus.)
(December 12, 2016 at 5:16 pm)Tiberius Wrote: It's a damn good precedent to set if you ask me. If we're going to be stuck with the electoral college system, we might as well use it how it was intended, which is to prevent people who are not qualified to be President, or who are under the influence of foreign powers (both arguably are somewhat true for Trump) from being elected President.
The article in the OP indicates that they've got a pretty comprehensive list of demands from both "the intelligence community" and the Trump campaign, with the latter being asked to prove that they had nothing to do with it. I don't have a problem with the release of this information. And if it does implicate the Trump campaign in any way, then I think it's the duty of our intelligence agencies to release that as soon as possible so that congress --and possibly federal law enforcement-- can act on it before we put an unqualified person in the White House. But this is a group of electors effectively demanding an investigation based on concerns they have from what they read in a few news sources. I think it's dangerous for electors to have the power to hijack an election that way when we already have agencies and laws in place that should allow those concerns to be dealt with. I'm imagining a scenario where Hillary wins the election and a group of electors demands that "the intelligence community release all of its findings on [scandal du'jour]" because they've been watching Fox News and reading Townhall.
Edit to add: I've been reading up on how the electors are selected, so my above concern is ameliorated somewhat. I may be more worried than is warranted over how they are selected in the future.
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