Four Washington State Faithless Electors To Be Fined $1,000 Each

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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – Four Washington state electors who cast their vote for someone other than Democrat Hillary Clinton will each be fined $1,000 next week, the secretary of state’s office said Thursday.

David Ammons, a spokesman for Secretary of State Kim Wyman, told The Associated Press that the electors will have 60 days to pay the fine, and said the office is putting together an appeals process in case of a challenge.

Clinton won the state’s popular vote last month, earning her 12 electoral votes. Under state law, presidential electors – who are chosen by their party at their state convention – sign a pledge to vote for their party’s nominees for president and vice president. But during Monday’s Electoral College vote in Olympia, Clinton got just eight votes, while former Secretary of State Colin Powell got three and Native American tribal elder and activist Faith Spotted Eagle got one vote.

Republican Donald Trump finished with 304 votes – winning all but two of the Electoral College votes he claimed on Election Day – and Clinton had 227 after losing five – the four in Washington state and one in Hawaii. It takes 270 Electoral College votes to win the presidency.

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Indeed. I'm still in awe at how this election and post-election have played out for the dems. It looks something like this:



The electoral college thing in particular really backfired. The electors who defected from the dems' camp probably heard all this talk of convincing or even threatening would-be Trump voters, and thought "Hey, this defection thing works both ways". Same with the phrase "voting one's conscience".

[HAPPY2BME]

Indeed. I'm still in awe at how this election and post-election have played out for the dems. It looks something like this:



The electoral college thing in particular really backfired. The electors who defected from the dems' camp probably heard all this talk of convincing or even threatening would-be Trump voters, and thought "Hey, this defection thing works both ways". Same with the phrase "voting one's conscience".

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