Dear Electors

Though I have been promoting changing the vote, many Democrat electors may still rather find a way of supporting Hillary Clinton, so how about those Democratic electors using vote to best show disapproval of how the electoral college votes are allocated by voting for the last Democrat cheated from the Presidency?

I suggest an option for those Democrat Electors that do not choose to woo their Republican colleagues, that they could consider a strategy that would indicate both support for Hillary Clinton and a protest at how the election has been taken away from voters: Vote for Al Gore. I make this request together with requesting that the next time the will of the most voters is ignored that those future electors vote for Hillary Clinton. 

A vote for Al Gore would be the best protest vote because it would be harder to call it a vote of disapproval of Hillary Clinton when this vote is done in connection with written requests that electors in future electors vote for her. Having a pattern of electors voting for the last cheated candidate would send a very well recorded message of disapproval with the formula committing more electors to a loser as unqualified as Trump while denying the wind to such a moderate, capable, and honest as is Hillary Clinton.

A vote for Gore would be a reminder of what the country suffered due to a Republican presidency that ignored not having a mandate and instead governed in an extreme conservative manner. I list but a small part of what the country endured due to not having Al Gore as President: 

• War in Iraq: This lead to thousands of American and allied casualties, with Iraqis still dying. It lead to the creation of ISIS which brought the Iraq war to Syria. It lead to the US being involved in torture, a policy Trump may return. 
• The financial crisis resulted in good part from the deregulation that Trump could accelerate.
• Tax cuts for the rich squandered the end of the deficit achieved by Clinton and Gore.
• Global warming was ignored, progressing much further as a result.
• President Bush’s ineptitude likely even brought the 9-11 terrorist attacks themselves. 
• I could go on and on, but it is so important that Republican electors change their votes that Democratic electors should lead the way by declaring that they are changing theirs, too.

My first effort has been to try to promote actual change in the electoral outcome by promoting the selection of an alternative that could actually attract Republican Electors. For that effort I have generally promoted “Romney, not Trump” both because he is the alternate most recently selected by Republican votes, and because he is someone who could best unite the country. I ask my electors in Arizona to vote for Mitt Romney. I ask them to do so for one more reason: the winner-take-all allocation of electors wrongly disenfranchises those who voted opposite to their state but along with the national popular majority. I ask that four of Arizona’s electors not vote for Trump in recognition of the 44.6% who voted for Clinton, for whom you could select Romney as a compromise. I do think that if he is somehow selected either today or later, by the House of Representatives, that he would be called upon to represent both sides. I want to get in writing before the vote is taken that any replacement be obliged to involve Democrats such as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, as well as Republican moderates including Kasich. 

My hope is that voting be reformed. I believe that the more votes that are switched today, the stronger will be the message to work on improving how voters messages are input into the selection process. I do think that in the future, there may be better options of how the Electoral College is used to actually make decisions in cases when the voters choose someone so clearly outside American values.

Sincerely,

Stuart Taylor

Arizona voter, voting as an expatriate American living in Hong Kong

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