Hi, my name is Brett Chiafalo and I'm a member of the electoral college. There 538 of us. Since there's been some confusion about us, I want to explain a few things.
Our Founding Fathers spent years thinking about how our system of government should work, and they wrote a Constitution that has guided our country for over 200 years. Like all smart architects or engineers, they also designed a fail-safe mechanism — an emergency brake in case something went wrong. This emergency brake is the Electoral College.
You may think that the Electoral College is supposed to rubber-stamp the winner of the election. That is not the case. In fact that is the opposite of what the Founders intended. They intended for us to subject the winner of the election to exhaustive scrutiny, and if the candidate does not meet our standards we are expected to elect an alternative.
They were worried about the kind of demagogues who had taken control of so many other countries, so the Electoral College was charged with making sure that the President met three important criteria.
- First, they wanted to make sure that the voters elected a qualified person.
- Second, they wanted to prevent the election of a charismatic autocrat
- Third, the Founding Fathers feared that a president could be elected who was under the influence of foreign powers. The Founders believed that even if the people failed to realize that the President-Elect had compromising ties to foreign countries, the discerning members of the electoral college could protect the country and choose an alternative president.
The Electoral College is our fail-safe mechanism. And no, we've never used it before, but our country has never needed it before. We have always elected experienced statesmen. But this time is different. This is the moment Hamilton and Madison warned us about. This is the emergency they built the Electoral College for and it is our Constitutional duty and our moral responsibility to put the emergency measures into action.
If only 37 Republican Electors change their vote, Donald Trump will not have the 270 electoral votes he needs to be President.
37 Patriots can save this country.