Please sign it:
(https://www.change.org/p/electoral-college-electors-electors-unite-behind-a-choice-who-can-win-to-not-choose-an-unqualified-president)
I I leave the post from yesterday:
Please help me edit my petition to change who the electoral college chooses for President. Please help me get the best written petition possible.
My petition could work because it is directed first at Democrat electors. It is not certain to fail as are the efforts to persuade Republican electors to vote for Hillary Clinton. Please do not debate me over whether this could never work or is somehow improper: The point is that it is worth trying to get the electoral college to produce a different choice by convincing Democratic electors that there is nothing wrong and nothing disparaging to Ms. Clinton about coming together to offer up a new choice that perhaps enough Republican electors might change their votes.
I seek editing suggestions (but not debate) on the following text:
I plan this to be the first of three petitions, to provide another petition for citizens of the world to express their voice that the U.S. choose a suitable leader who cares about the people of the world and the health of the earth’s climate.
The purpose of the third petition is to place questions on the petition website of the whitehouse.gov, to address that the government lacks an appropriate petition website such that the first two petitions must be presented on a private site such as change.org. I am afraid that the whitehouse.gov site would remove a petition advocating for a change in the selection of a presidential candidate, but feel that some constitutional questions such as whether electors could do this, and whether candidates who do not obtain the highest number of electoral candidates can say they release their electors. I think to receive a Whitehouse reply even only that the constitution allows electors to vote however they want and are not bound by tradition of being a rubber stamp body would give encouragement to this effort.
I believe the text already expresses fairly well what I hoped it would, but this is a serious effort, so I choose to open it to a wider audience for a very short time before posting it.
We
petition all electors to come together to select a leader who can unify our
country. We petition Democratic electors to take the lead by declaring their
vote to select a different Republican to become President. This is the only
chance to encourage Republican electors to vote for a leader that a real
majority of Americans can support. This is the best way to protest the setup
where she who gets the most votes is kept from winning. We petition electors to
perform the duty that those who wrote the constitution gave you: Reject the
selection of an unqualified President.
We
encourage Hillary Clinton to tell her electors that they are free to vote for a
candidate that can win the current setup. Changing their vote is not voting
against her. Do not accept that after getting the most votes she is assigned
fewer electors. The Electoral College can only send one message that counts.
Our petition is a response from the people to keep America great and keep
America together.
We
petition as voters who may have wanted Hillary Clinton to win, as citizens who
showed opposition by voting for third candidates, or even as citizens who
regret voting for Donald J Trump.
We
petition Democratic electors do change their votes to support reform of the
procedure of choosing Presidents. Send a message of rejecting the flaws of the
current formula of choosing electors as a flawed count that ignores who
received the most votes. Your action is required to prevent an undemocratic
formula from choosing the wrong winner yet again. The biggest honor you could
give to citizens who voted for Hillary Clinton would be to offer her the
opportunity to suggest which Republican would be the best alternative to
selecting Donald J. Trump, but given that she may feel bound by recent
tradition, we ask you to collaborate among yourselves.
Some
Democratic electors have suggested suitable candidates that their Republican
colleagues could choose instead of Donald J. Trump. We petition that you do not
merely encourage other electors change their votes to one of these alternatives.
We petition you to do so yourselves. Say you did it in response to the people.
We
petition leaders to perform your constitutional duty of rejecting an
unqualified candidate who is being chosen not by the most votes but by an
undemocratic count of the votes where some votes count more than others.
We
petition electors to work together to support the same qualified candidate who
could bring the country together and show respect to the world. We need a
leader who can America keep the great leader it has long been.
The purpose of the third petition is to place questions on the petition website of the whitehouse.gov, to address that the government lacks an appropriate petition website such that the first two petitions must be presented on a private site such as change.org. I am afraid that the whitehouse.gov site would remove a petition advocating for a change in the selection of a presidential candidate, but feel that some constitutional questions such as whether electors could do this, and whether candidates who do not obtain the highest number of electoral candidates can say they release their electors. I think to receive a Whitehouse reply even only that the constitution allows electors to vote however they want and are not bound by tradition of being a rubber stamp body would give encouragement to this effort.
I believe the text already expresses fairly well what I hoped it would, but this is a serious effort, so I choose to open it to a wider audience for a very short time before posting it.
