Wisconsin state to recount votes after Trump’s win

Reports indicate Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is now more than 1.7 million votes ahead of Republican opponent-and president-elect-Donald Trump. Individual voters’ choices should matter more than states’ votes.

Now when we go to vote, we are actually casting our votes for a slate of electors who will vote for our candidate should they win a plurality of the vote in that state.

Trump was able to get 290 Electoral College votes as against Clinton who scored 232.

Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump in the popular vote surpassed 2 million Wednesday morning, according to Dave Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. Merely complaining to your friends won’t help. It takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. What’s interesting, though, is that Trump, more than any candidate in American history, has benefited from the Electoral College – but he still doesn’t like it.

Yes, some of the original reasons for creating the Electoral College do seem antiquated and wrong today.

The electors will cast their ballots December 19 while meeting in their respective states. “So in our case, it’ll be the Republican slate of electors voting to support Donald Trump”, Canon says. Shortly after the result of the election was made public, more and more voices are requiring the Democratic candidate to demand a recount of votes.

John LaForge, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is co-director of Nukewatch, a peace and environmental justice group in Wisconsin, and is co-editor with Arianne Peterson of “Nuclear Heartland, Revised: A Guide to the 450 Land-Based Missiles of the United States”.

To think enough Republicans are going to change their vote is pure folly. The margin is about 12,000 in MI, 27,000 in Wisconsin, 68,000 in Pennsylvania and 113,000 in Florida – close, but nothing compared to the 537 votes that separated George W. Bush and Al Gore in Florida 16 years ago.

They call their effort Hamilton Elector after Federalist Paper #68, in which Alexander Hamilton wrote that the Electoral College would stand as one more check on power – part of the movement, at that time, to win ratification of the Constitution.