Electoral college members have a tough decision to make today, one that will have cascading consequences into January and possibly set precedent for future votes even generations later. Normally an electoral college member sees the number of votes the citizens tallied and casts a vote based solely on that information. This election's vote is not going to happen like that. With the integrity of the election in question electors in contested states have to have a bit of foresight in mind when casting their vote; is it possible I may have to change my vote later down the line? To you and me, ordinary people, that doesn't have any semblance of a matter worth spending more than 30 seconds on, but please read the room. The republic is on edge. The electoral college members are quite literally on a razor's edge, choose the wrong answer and there will be a target on your back. The brutal reality is there may be no correct answer, both scenarios will result in pitchforks being deployed and angry mobs calling for heads on a pike, literally.
The challenge electors have is the following: if a vote is cast a certain way and lawsuits reveal fraud that legally overturns the election, would you or would you not overturn your vote, would you be an unfaithful elector? Maybe now you can see why there is no correct answer, if you change your vote people will accuse you being unfaithful to your own vote. If you keep your vote the people will accuse you of being unfaithful to the people's vote. Either way you vote there will be an angry mob of self-righteous crusaders ready to do whatever it takes to change that vote through intimidation. I am of the opinion that the only correct solution is for electors in contested states to abstain and lie low until the congressional confirmation vote takes place on January 6th. Either way I foresee a very real possibility that unfaithful electors may lean both ways, unfaithfully for Trump and unfaithfully for Biden. In addition it's possible the first unfaithful elector votes may influence other electoral college members to do the same, or vice versa. With the weight of the election very realistically in the hands of ten or fewer hands, all it may take is ten pieces of paper to send the ballot box tumbling. It's an unfortunate reality that once a single member decides to go unfaithful the rule book is thrown out the window.
Electoral college members have a tough decision to make today, one that will have cascading consequences into January and possibly set precedent for future votes even generations later. Normally an electoral college member sees the number of votes the citizens tallied and casts a vote based solely on that information. This election's vote is not going to happen like that. With the integrity of the election in question electors in contested states have to have a bit of foresight in mind when casting their vote; is it possible I may have to change my vote later down the line? To you and me, ordinary people, that doesn't have any semblance of a matter worth spending more than 30 seconds on, but please read the room. The republic is on edge. The electoral college members are quite literally on a razor's edge, choose the wrong answer and there will be a target on your back. The brutal reality is there may be no correct answer, both scenarios will result in pitchforks being deployed and angry mobs calling for heads on a pike, literally.
The challenge electors have is the following: if a vote is cast a certain way and lawsuits reveal fraud that legally overturns the election, would you or would you not overturn your vote, would you be an unfaithful elector? Maybe now you can see why there is no correct answer, if you change your vote people will accuse you being unfaithful to your own vote. If you keep your vote the people will accuse you of being unfaithful to the people's vote. Either way you vote there will be an angry mob of self-righteous crusaders ready to do whatever it takes to change that vote through intimidation. I am of the opinion that the only correct solution is for electors in contested states to abstain and lie low until the congressional confirmation vote takes place on January 6th. Either way I foresee a very real possibility that unfaithful electors may lean both ways, unfaithfully for Trump and unfaithfully for Biden. In addition it's possible the first unfaithful elector votes may influence other electoral college members to do the same, or vice versa. With the weight of the election very realistically in the hands of ten or fewer hands, all it may take is ten pieces of paper to send the ballot box tumbling. It's an unfortunate reality that once a single member decides to go unfaithful the rule book is thrown out the window.