CD133: The Electoral College

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

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🗓️ 12 September 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In a Presidential Election year when the Big Two Parties have selected widely disliked candidates, is it possible to vote None of the Above into the Presidency? In this episode, by learning how the electoral college works, we explore our options for realistically denying the Presidency to the chosen candidates of the Republican and Democratic Parties. *This episode has been updated from it's original version for information accuracy. Please support Congressional Dish: Click here to contribute with PayPal or Bitcoin; click the PayPal "Make it Monthly" checkbox to create a monthly subscription Click here to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Mail Contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North #4576 Crestview, FL 32536 Thank you for supporting truly independent media! United States Electoral College U.S. Electoral College: About the Electors, National Archives and Records Administration. The 2016 Presidential Election, National Archives and Records Administration. History of Faithless Electors, Fair Vote Democracy Directory of Representatives, United States House of Representatives State Control of Electors, Fair Vote Presidential Elections Reform Program Sound Clip Sources: FBI News Conference: FBI Director James Comey News Conference, Federal Bureau of Investigation, CSPAN, July 5, 2016. Video: Gary Johnson & Drones, YouTube, May 3, 2016. Television News Clip: Hillary Clinton in 2015: Email Server was Permitted, CNN, July 12, 2015. Video: Gary Johnson & Drones, YouTube, May 3, 2016. Videos: Video: The Trouble with the Electoral College By CGP Grey, YouTube, November 7, 2011. Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes Congressional Dish Episode 126: The Presidential Primary, By Jennifer Briney, May 23, 2016. Additional Reading Article: A Reminder of the Permanent Wars: Dozens of U.S. Airstrikes in Six Countries By Missy Ryan, The Washington Post, September 8, 2016. Article: US election: Why is Clinton's Foundation So Controversial? By Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, August 23, 2016. Article: Trump University: It's Worse Than You Think By John Cassidy, The New Yorker, June 2, 2016. Article: The Definitive Roundup of Trump's Scandals and Business Failures By Celina Durgin, National Review, March 15, 2016. Article: Pew Research Center will Call 75% Cellphones for Surveys in 2016 By Kyley McGeeney, Pew Research Center, January 5, 2016. Article: Clintons Personally Paid State Department Staffer to Maintain Server By Rosalind S. Helderman and Carol D. Leonnig, The Washington Post, September 5, 2015. Additional Information Report by the Office of Inspector General: Office of the Secretary: Evaluation of Email Records Management and Cybersecurity Requirements Office of Evaluations and Special Projects, May 2016. Commission on Presidential Debates Polls Used by Commission on Presidential Debates 2000 Official Presidential General Election Results, State Elections Offices Election Polling Methodology, Pew Reseach Center. Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio) Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations, with a special thanks to photographer Dennis "Chunga" Cieklinski for the awesome photo of the Bennett School for Girls.

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0:00.0	So here's how a relatively small group of voters could vote none of the above and deny both
0:05.8	Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton the presidency, made possible by the fact that the Electoral
0:10.5	College, which determines our president is a
0:12.6	fished up exploitable system and so here's how this would work.
0:16.0	If a third party candidate could get enough electors by winning just a few
0:19.6	states enough to prevent both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton from getting more than half of the
0:24.0	electoral college electors. If both of them could be prevented from hitting 270, the House of Representatives
0:30.2	would choose our next president. The House of Representatives, when they vote, would choose between the three people,
0:36.0	not two, the three people who get the most electoral college electors.
0:41.0	Now at this point, it is confirmed that there are only two other people on planet
0:45.1	Earth who will be on the ballot in enough states to be eligible to win the
0:48.5	presidency and those two people are former governor of New Mexico Gary
0:52.2	Johnson and Massachusetts Dr. Jill Stein.
0:55.9	This year, Gary Johnson is our best play if we want to deny both Trump and Hillary the presidency.
1:01.8	The reason is that if the Democrats end up with the majority in the House of Representatives
1:05.4	in the 115th Congress, they're likely to unite around Hillary Clinton regardless of who
1:10.2	the third choice would be.
1:12.0	However, if the Republicans maintain control of the House of Representatives
1:16.4	and the President ends up a Republican Party pick, well, the Republican Party is not exactly
1:22.2	united in support of their candidate Donald Trump.
1:25.6	And because of the divide in the Republican Party, there is a realistic chance
1:29.8	that a sizable number of Republicans would support Gary Johnson if he were the third choice on their
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