2016 electoral college voting **live commentary thread**

[zorkpolitics]

The Yahoo times are local time, this site has all times Eastern time:
see http://www.270towin.com/news/2016/12/16/electors-meet-monday-updated-schedule-results-map_428.html#.WFWEU_krLIU

First votes at 10:00 AM EST in NH, last votes at 7:00 PM EST in HI.

[zorkpolitics]

NH electors are just droning on instead of signing the EV!

[zorkpolitics]

NH:
4 votes for Clinton for President

4 votes for Kaine for VP

[zorkpolitics]

NH:
4 votes for Clinton for President

4 votes for Kaine for VP

Hillary is the first woman to receive electoral votes for President and lose!

[zorkpolitics]

After the 10:00 round of voting Trump leads 27 to 7.
Next up 5 states at 11:00.

[zorkpolitics]

not exactly live but close:
http://www.270towin.com/live-2016-presidential-election-vote-of-electors/

[zorkpolitics]

After the 11:00 votes Trump 55 Clinton 27.  No rogue electors yet.

Between 11:45 and 12:00 big batch of 12 states vote

[zorkpolitics]

A anti-Trump GA elector was replaced before the voting, so an almost rogue elector

[zorkpolitics]

According to the Constitution "no person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. "  Bill Clinton is an elector from NY and he receives both a pension and office expenses from the US and hence receives a profit for his office.  So he seems to be an illegal vote for Clinton.

[zorkpolitics]

According to the Constitution "no person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. "  Bill Clinton is an elector from NY and he receives both a pension and office expenses from the US and hence receives a profit for his office.  So he seems to be an illegal vote for Clinton.

So by your logic, any former employee of the federal government who receives a pension is barred from being an elector?

I interpret "holding an office" to mean currently in office, and thus excluding benefits given to former officeholders. And office in this context clearly doesn't mean a workspace, but rather an official government elected position.

To be an expresident of the US you have to hold the office, then for the rest of your life you get Secret Service protection paid for by the US and a few million dollars in office expenses, so seems like a pretty good profit for an office...

[zorkpolitics]

What's up with DC?  
They were supposed to vote at 12:00.  Nobody show up?  So incompetent they haven't finished? or does nobody care about this non-state?

[zorkpolitics]

So after hours of cable news time and miles of newsprint 1,000,000s of emails to try and trick the Republican electors, its 4 wacky Democrats in WA that go down in history as idiots.

[zorkpolitics]

CO rogue elector dismissed

[zorkpolitics]

Poor DC has it been forgotten or just ignored?

[zorkpolitics]

Looks like the GOP wins the Rogue elector competition:
4 Democratic electors go rogue, but only 2 Republicans then they voted for Republicans 5 to 1.