Electoral College voters want to know whether Russia meddled in election

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Source: New York Post

WASHINGTON Ten members of the Electoral College nine Democrats and one Republican on Monday demanded an intelligence briefing on Russian interference in the presidential election.

The request came as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a green light to a congressional inquiry into allegations of Russian hacking.

The members were organized by Christine Pelosi, a California elector and the daughter of House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.

In a letter to the director of national intelligence, the electors requested information on whether there are ongoing investigations into Donald Trump and his associates ties to Russia.

Read more: http://nypost.com/2016/12/12/electoral-college-voters-want-to-know-whether-russia-meddled-in-election/

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Thank you Christine Pelosi!

Its about time! Everyone involved need to demand answers to this question!

DUMP tRUMP!!!

[Judi Lynn]

1. US electoral college members demand information on Russia election inquiry

Ten electors, including Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, write to national intelligence director out of obligation to protect presidential office from foreign influences

Ed Pilkington in New York
@edpilkington
Monday 12 December 2016 13.35 EST

Ten of the 538 members of the electoral college who have the ultimate power to put Donald Trump into the White House are demanding that intelligence agencies inform them of any ongoing investigations into alleged links between the president-elect and his coterie and Russian government attempts to sway the election in his favor.

The 10 electors are all Democratic bar one – Chris Suprun, the Republican from Texas who plans to defect from Trump. They include all four Democratic electors in New Hampshire, as well as Christine Pelosi from California, the daughter of the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.

In a joint letter to the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, they argue that their duty as electors is not just to vote blindly according to their party decree when the electoral college convenes on 19 December. They also have the responsibility to question the winning presidential candidate’s fitness for highest office, they say, and to guard against any foreign interference in the process.

The authors quote Alexander Hamilton from the 1787 Federalist Papers in which the founding fathers stated that a key role of the electoral college was to prevent a “desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils”. In their letter, which was first disclosed by Politico, the electors go on to say that they are facing precisely this duty in an election year in which the CIA has reportedly concluded with “high confidence” that Russia conducted a covert effort to influence the US election.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/12/electoral-college-russia-election-trump

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2. 9 Democrats & 1 repub

Do you see where this is going? Yeah... Nowhere.

[liberal N proud]

3. So very republican of them to allow one to crossover.

[stopbush]

4. Afraid you're right.