Coming out of a meeting with three other National Electors from Colorado, at the home of Polly Baca, a woman of unimpeachable support for Hillary Clinton, most recently her convention floor Whip at the Democratic National Convention, where we all unhesitatingly agreed that we are now non-partisan Electors beholden to no binding or candidate. We are also knowledgeable that all 538 Electors will be facing a truly historic, and unprecedented Electoral College vote on December 19th. I wish this daunting and sleep depriving responsibility on no one where each of the 538 Electors will eventually come to realize this daunting personal responsibility, that their personal decision will be determine solely the election of the next president, at a time when a capable and sophisticated foreign adversary corrupted the election. They successfully veiled and camouflaged a widespread Cyber and Psy Ops series of attacks pointed at disrupting, discrediting and manipulating this nation’s election of a representative government. Each of my fellow National Electors, Republicans and Democrats will soon will be faced with either remaining partisan, in the face of this mounting pressure and evidence or joining a non-partisan solution.
At the meeting we were joined by a well-informed, prestigious and capable attorney who is the point person of a non-partisan legal group where we discussed the daunting responsibilities outlined by Hamilton in this paragraph of Federalist Papers 68.
Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption. These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one querter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union? But the convention have guarded against all danger of this sort, with the most provident and judicious attention. They have not made the appointment of the President to depend on any preexisting bodies of men, who might be tampered with beforehand to prostitute their votes; but they have referred it in the first instance to an immediate act of the people of America, to be exerted in the choice of persons for the temporary and sole purpose of making the appointment. And they have excluded from eligibility to this trust, all those who from situation might be suspected of too great devotion to the President in office. No senator, representative, or other person holding a place of trust or profit under the United States, can be of the numbers of the electors. Thus without corrupting the body of the people, the immediate agents in the election will at least enter upon the task free from any sinister bias. Their transient existence, and their detached situation, already taken notice of, afford a satisfactory prospect of their continuing so, to the conclusion of it. The business of corruption, when it is to embrace so considerable a number of men, requires time as well as means. Nor would it be found easy suddenly to embark them, dispersed as they would be over thirteen States, in any combinations founded upon motives, which though they could not properly be denominated corrupt, might yet be of a nature to mislead them from their duty.
What we learned and agreed to was the proposed comprehensive nationwide legal strategy to unbind each of the National Electors in 29 states which possess state laws that seek to remove and restrict the free will in the act of voting their conscience during the Electoral College vote. There are other legal strategies to enjoin all the fifty states in this matter and the entire institution of the Electoral College.
Regardless of the public rhetoric and pronouncements regarding the Electoral College the one fact remains, constitutionally no president is elected until the Electoral College votes in the majority and if it is not a majority than the process goes to the House of Representatives. This is the current law of the land and the only path a president can be inaugurated to office.
The justification for our actions is that this election process is no longer trustworthy as to expressing the consent of the nation and that it appears to me and those in our meeting that the United States was attacked by a foreign adversary (or adversaries both state and otherwise) and that Donald J Trump’s regime was connected to them in a number of already reported ways. I and others are now of the belief that we are in a new phrase of the Cold War, that defined my childhood to young adulthood though now the attacks use cyber penetrations coupled with powerful and sophisticated psy-ops strategies. The basis that he has clearly demonstrated the lacking of moral and ethical leadership qualities only magnifies the urgency to act.
The Elector from Weld County Colorado then told the small assembly that last summer while the county Democratic Party was revamping their local website found that over half the visitors to their site had Russian IP addresses. At the time they found this strange. I think it would be important that every political and new organization check their DNS and IP origination logs to determine how comprehensive this cyber intel and possible hacking attack was beyond election systems. This goes to the WAPO article about fake news sites, sharing of fake news and even fake personalities on blog sites. It is only a small piece of a bigger iceberg not yet seen or publicly known.
Therefore we seeking to generate the following actions: Free up every Elector to know they can vote different than their partisan station without legal or local threat of retribution. Seek out Republican and Democratic Electors willing to join a non-partisan coalition movement to identify an alternative, one that is a responsible slate of leaders who will be President of the United States. This slate would be comprised of either two Republican leaders that both a majority of electors would agree to or a Republican President and Democratic vice president. It would be the example of non-partisan political action that has been vacant in national politics for over a generation and necessary to confront this foreign adversary threat to our representative form of government.
Personally I wish this responsibility on no one. The process and subsequent vote on December 19th will be unprecedented and those voting will be responsible personally for the future of this nation, its representative form of government and the welfare of their family’s and friends. They will have to live with the decision for the rest of their lives and may adversely be affected or harmed for either a courageous or cowardly vote of conscience. There are no half measures here, once you become aware of the situation and your role in it you have to come to the courageous vote.
What can you do? We asking for more information. The most important is if you are personally acquainted with a National Elector in any state in the union we need to know. We are seeking private contact information to reach out to them, inform them and encourage them to join with us in a non-partisan effort. You may private message me through Kos and I will pass it on. Secondly, if you were acquainted or knowledgeable of websites and/or data systems that strangely received heavy foreign IP traffic, most notably Russian, but from any other off shore IP address, please inform me as well. Lastly, I am asking for the total partisans to stand down and allow us some measure of responsible deliberation and effort. Unless Hillary’s campaign by some extreme reversal flips WI, MI and PA in recounts she will not be the president of the US regardless of the reported popular vote. This election cannot afford any symbolic Elector vote.