In the interests of the popular vote, in the interests of core American ideals and Democracy, in opposition to the supremacist defined and spirited political mob overwhelming our Nation's Capital, I am adding my voice to the call to the Electoral College Voters. I am calling upon them to protect our Nation as they were intended to do, against populous mob rule. Trump is not qualified to be President, and this is widely known and appreciated. His narcissistic personality, actions, words, and choices used to agitate this hate defined mob mentality, has turned him into a true Demagogue who is a threat to our Democracy, which is exactly the tyrannical threat that the Electoral College was created to defend against. On Dec 19, I am asking the Electoral Voters to vote against Donald Trump. Courage is needed here in fulfilling the duties of the Electoral College. The threat is real, is clear, and the effects are already beginning to materialize. Electoral Voters, uphold your duty to protect the Constitution and the Democracy of the United States of America. It is NOT your duty to vote in accordance with the popular vote. If that was the case, the Electoral College would have no purpose or meaning, and we would just use the Popular Vote. Your duty is to defend the Constitution and its Republic from tyranny, from a populous authoritarian Demagogue and the destructive hate defined movement he has constructed to propel him to power. This appeal to duty is not done in support of any other specific candidate, including Hillary. This appeal is not partisan in nature. Voting for any of the candidates except for Trump, third party or not, is an option. The validity of this argument is not based on political affiliation, liking or disliking, or on specific policies, or in this case, the lack of policies. The argument justifying the Electoral College acting is based on the noted patterns and traits of a Demagogue manipulating popular sentiment, riding that support into power, then undermining the Democratic Republic, and seizing power as a tyrant. Socrates and Plato wrote about this, history reflected their political theory, and the Founding Fathers added the Electoral College specifically to address the risk of such a threat. Trump exhibits all of the patterns and traits of such a rising Demagogue, and thus so matching the threat that their institution was designed to neutralize, the Electoral College should act and vote against Trump. Trump represents a clear and present danger to the security and prosperity of the United States, an assault upon core and evolved American values and ideals. I believe that your duty is clear upon objective reflection, and I wish you courage, strength, and resolve in fulfilling that duty on Dec 19, when you vote against Donald Trump, and prevent the success of his assault upon our Democracy. We the Voters failed and were unprepared for the supremacist populous movement on Election Day. You can not fail, you are the last steadfast defense and safe guard of Democracy left, and it was for this exact purpose that the Founding Fathers created your institution. Profoundly and Truly, Thank you for fulfilling your service and duty.

In the hours since the election results have come in, I've watched with concern the Democratic party's rudderless response to their loss and their instinctive recoil from pushing toward a more inclusive and representative government. I don't want to have the progress made by Americans (including Ilhan Omar) overshadowed by the regression in national politics. I think its important to reflect and reassess but not overlearn the wrong lessons (like spending even less time and energy and focus on minority voices). More about Ilhan Omar http://www.refinery29.com/2016/11/127541/somali-american-refugee-elected-state-legislature

In 2000 and 2016, the Electoral College decided the Presidential election, not the people. This should change. According to the US Constitution, our state legislatures can help with this.

The intent is to identify those congressmen who oppose the Amendment and target them for a challenge in the 2018 election.

With Al Gore, and now with Hillary Clinton, it is obvious that the population vote doesn't matter. I want my voice to matter. I want my vote to COUNT.

The Electors are the ones who actually choose the President, and in highly unusual circumstances can choose according to their conscience, rather than the popular vote of their state. This election is unusual enough to warrant Electors choosing what is best for the country.

I am EXTREMELY suspicious of the outcome of this election, especially after the candidate who won has been shown to have close ties to a hostile government while also insisting the election would be rigged against him.

The last time the Electoral College selected a candidate who did not win votes from the majority of the American people, the nation was plunged into war and economic chaos, leading to the Great Recession, the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression.

U.S. Presidents are not ever elected via the popular vote because of a loophole called the Electoral College. Help now to make sure that the arcane, outdated system is destroyed for good! Despite popular belief, the U.S. Constitution does not provide for the popular election of the American president. It provides for popular election of presidential electors. Each candidate who qualifies for a given state's ballot must designate certain individuals who will serve as his or her electors if that candidate wins the popular vote in that state. When each state certifies a winner of its overall popular vote, that winner is entitled to send all his or her electors to that state's Capitol, where they will officially record their votes for their candidate. All the electors in all the states do it on the same day, the first Monday after the second Wednesday of December. This year it is Dec. 19, which is the latest it can be, just as this year's Election Day is the latest it can be. In these proceedings in the states, the winner of the statewide popular vote generally takes all the Electoral College votes, a rule stretching back to 1824.

I care about this country and see the Senate's blocking of Obama's Supreme Court Nominee to be unprecedented and unconstitutional. I think it's imperative that we make our voices on this issue heard, and quickly, while there's still time to take action.

The extreme right wing minority has usurp power of the 2016 US Presidency.

The electoral college just wrote Americans off by letting Trump sit in the highest seat of power, he is a con artist and a failed business man. We must have the popular vote mean more than the electoral college! Please SIGN and SHARE this petition to start getting the change our country desperately needs. POPULAR VOTE TOTALS: Hillary: 59,923,027; Trump: 59,692,974