All of a sudden every Hillary voter is condemning the
Electoral College System in America. Many are now calling for its abrogation
simply because Hillary won the popular votes but lost the electoral votes. By
the way, the popular votes was just by a difference of 200,000 votes. Not a
very wide margin.
The founding fathers of American Constitutional Democracy
had their wisdom for inventing the electoral voting system. They wanted to
avoid what is now known as the "tyranny of the majority". This
ensures that the Leader of the Free World has a popular appeal throughout the
States in the Union and not merely have popular votes. Nigeria has a similar
system. It is simply not enough to have the majority votes.
The same electoral college system got Bill Clinton
(Hillary's husband) into the White House. Ditto for ALL past US Presidents down
to Barrack Obama. Now that Donald Trump won through the same system, liberal
and Democrat tongues are wagging. Such double-standard.
Many Hillary Clinton supporters are still living in denial
of her defeat. Their anger should be directed towards the liberal mainstream
media for churning out lies in the name of polls. Trump won and that is the
harsh reality.
I have heard some pontificating that the electors in the
Electoral College may still vote against Trump as 'faithless' electors on
December 19. Well, they may and they may not. But here are a few things you
need to know about that:
1. Throughout American history it is said that there was
only one 'faithless' elector ever recorded. Let's say i'm even wrong and let me
be magnanimous and say there have been five (5) of them. Now, imagine that
number since 1774! Quite insignificant you'd say. You know why? Because
electors hardly vote against or go 'faithless' against the people's wish.
2. Going 'faithless' as an elector comes with a sizable fine
in dollars. If an elector chooses to vote his conscience and goes 'faithless'
against Trump, he or she must pay a fine (I read somewhere that it's not less
than $1000 dollars).
3. The 'faithless' electoral votes will still be subject to
Congressional Ratification. If the Congress doesn't agree to it by a simple
majority then Trump still becomes President. Guess what, Republicans hold the
majority number in House.
So, presently the odds are in favour of Donald Trump. Get
used to it!
Written by Olakunle Allison
www.facebook.com/barr.olakunleallison
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