Judging by the polls in the swing states, it looks like Hillary Clinton will reach 270 electoral votes easily. But if there’s a dramatic swing in the coming weeks, and her path to 270 grows narrower… she might have be a little worried about getting eleven electoral votes out of Washington instead of twelve.
Meet Robert Satiacum, Democratic Party elector from the Evergreen State, who’s supposed to vote for Hillary Clinton if she wins the state… but who apparently isn’t willing to do that.
“I’m not going to be forced to go in there and pick out your poison. Not happening. Maybe this will start with something, we’ll all stand up and speak up,” he told KING 5. “This is more than a presidential election; the world is in crisis mode!”
A local activist and member of the Puyallup Tribe, Satiacum supported Bernie Sanders for president and still does.
“We had a great deal of hope with Bernie, because he said that. That we’re going to go back and redress the way we’re dealing with Native American people and their concerns and their needs,” he said.
…He says he believes Clinton and Trump are more similar than different.
“They’re detached. They don’t understand. They don’t feel what we’re feeling. By her contributions and the people who fund her and support her, speaks volumes, speaks for itself,” he said.
Right now many Washington Hillary fans are probably screaming, “Can he do that?” Sure, as long as he’s willing to pay a $1,000 fine.
Satiacum could very well end up giving a lone electoral vote to Sanders.
The last “faithless elector” occurred in 2004:
One of Minnesota’s 10 presidential electors broke from the pack and cast a vote Monday for John Edwards, the Democratic vice presidential running mate for John Kerry. The other nine Minnesota members of the Electoral College voted for Kerry, who won the state’s popular vote in November.
After the state’s Electoral College ceremony concluded, no one stepped foward as the Edwards voter. Most electors chalked the vote up as a mistake rather than a purposeful political statement.






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