Was the 2016 election stolen? Was there outright voter manipulation in some states? Jill Stein is behind a recount effort in three battleground states and has raised millions of dollars to pay for it. Clinton’s people have joined the effort. Cyber-hacking could have interfered with electronic voting machines. We know there were purged voter rolls casting many legitimate voters out, many provisional ballots tossed out, voter-suppression tactics employed, an aggressive Russian disinformation agenda aided by WikiLeaks — to hijack our election, FBI Comey’s ploy eleven days preceding 11/8, an additional $200 million in “dark money” gifted to the GOP 2 weeks prior to election day, an abundance of online fake “news” sites spewing outrageous lies, and mainstream media failing to call Trump out on his constant barrage of lies, while focusing incessantly on disparaging Hillary’s private email server, which was NOT illegal! There is a vast network of GOP gerrymandered states , which greatly hinder a democratic outcome; that situation needs remedied NOW! If the recount shows Trump to have not legimately garnered the necessary 270 electoral votes, the Dirty Tricks party should not be awarded the election as the result of cheating and chicanery! This election stinks on so many levels; 11/9 felt like 9/11. Hillary was NOT a flawed candidate! We have flawed elections because only half of those eligible to vote — voted, and most people don’t feel the need to adequately educate themselves on most issues. Hillary won the majority of the popular vote — with nearly 3 million more votes than Trump, so those millions of voters feel extremely disenfranchised! She has won more popular votes than any presidential-candidate EVER, except Barack Obama! There is a legal, constitutional remedy set by the Founders for this “electile dysfunction”. The Electors who vote on December 19th actually determine who the president-elect is; and if enough of those pledged for Trump decide his conflicts of interest too multitudinous, instead vote for Hillary , she would be our president-elect. There is precedent for this: “Abraham Lincoln’s winning total in the 1860 election included 4 electors who were pledged to Stephen Douglas”; they changed their minds. This election is the very scenario that our Founders had in mind in setting up the Electoral College system, seeing that the uneducated electorate could be duped into voting for a totally unfit candidate — the country could be saved by the Electors — from Trump and his vast array of Swamp Monsters dismantling our democracy piece by blessed piece!
Dec 5 2016
Letter to the Editor, The Register-Mail newspaper 12/3/16, Galesburg, IL
Was the 2016 election stolen? Was there outright voter manipulation in some states? Jill Stein is behind a recount effort in three battleground states and has raised millions of dollars to pay for it. Clinton’s people have joined the effort. Cyber-hacking could have interfered with electronic voting machines. We know there were purged voter rolls casting many legitimate voters out, many provisional ballots tossed out, voter-suppression tactics employed, an aggressive Russian disinformation agenda aided by WikiLeaks — to hijack our election, FBI Comey’s ploy eleven days preceding 11/8, an additional $200 million in “dark money” gifted to the GOP 2 weeks prior to election day, an abundance of online fake “news” sites spewing outrageous lies, and mainstream media failing to call Trump out on his constant barrage of lies, while focusing incessantly on disparaging Hillary’s private email server, which was NOT illegal! There is a vast network of GOP gerrymandered states , which greatly hinder a democratic outcome; that situation needs remedied NOW! If the recount shows Trump to have not legimately garnered the necessary 270 electoral votes, the Dirty Tricks party should not be awarded the election as the result of cheating and chicanery! This election stinks on so many levels; 11/9 felt like 9/11. Hillary was NOT a flawed candidate! We have flawed elections because only half of those eligible to vote — voted, and most people don’t feel the need to adequately educate themselves on most issues. Hillary won the majority of the popular vote — with nearly 3 million more votes than Trump, so those millions of voters feel extremely disenfranchised! She has won more popular votes than any presidential-candidate EVER, except Barack Obama! There is a legal, constitutional remedy set by the Founders for this “electile dysfunction”. The Electors who vote on December 19th actually determine who the president-elect is; and if enough of those pledged for Trump decide his conflicts of interest too multitudinous, instead vote for Hillary , she would be our president-elect. There is precedent for this: “Abraham Lincoln’s winning total in the 1860 election included 4 electors who were pledged to Stephen Douglas”; they changed their minds. This election is the very scenario that our Founders had in mind in setting up the Electoral College system, seeing that the uneducated electorate could be duped into voting for a totally unfit candidate — the country could be saved by the Electors — from Trump and his vast array of Swamp Monsters dismantling our democracy piece by blessed piece!
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