DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — Regardless of how you feel about the results of the recent presidential election you’ll have to admit we’re all learning more about the Electoral College, how it works and why it is used.
December 19th the 538 national electors chosen by state political parties will gather at their respective state capitols and cast the official votes that will determine who will be inaugurated president of the United States in January. It’s a largely ceremonial process with each elector voting for the candidate selected by popular vote of her or his constituents in their congressional districts. Electors in Texas can change their minds but are not expected to do so. This year many are under pressure from Clinton voters.
Dallas-Ft. Worth area elector Alex Kim told NBC 5 some electors have actually received death threats. He says he has received thousands of e-mails every day urging him to vote for Hillary Clinton. Kim says that’s not going to happen, “I reject the Democratic party principles and I reject Hillary Clinton.”
In Dayton, Texas, just east of Houston, elector Art Sisneros is on the fence. He told Texas Monthly he’s still trying to make up his mind whether to vote for Donald Trump as he is expected to do. Sisneros says he really doesn’t know what he’s going to do. “I’ve got three options – to vote for Trump, to be faithless and vote for somebody else, or to resign.”
The term, “faithless” is actually part of the technical term, “faithless elector”, used to describe an elector that goes rogue.
