Grounds
for equal consideration at
Virginia’s electoral college?
Joseph A. Glean · The
Mount Vernon Statesman · Sunday,
October 28, 2012
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ALEXANDRIA, VA · For
those who are following along, we have
now entered into the second phase of the
strategic proposal published on this
website two weeks ago: “A
remedy for those who’ve lost faith
in the electoral process?”
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The
turning of the first
key: As
you will recall, in order to ensure
participants the greatest possibility of
success, I recommended the filing of two
“Joint Declaration” forms [Form
SBE-644 (Rev. 4/11)] with the Virginia
State Board of Elections
(SBE). Both of these forms had
to be “properly
executed” (signed, notarized, etc.)
in accordance to the requirements of
Virginia Code § 24.2-644C and submitted
ahead of the prescribed filing
deadline: Saturday, October
27, 2012.
The first of these two
declarations was to officially pledge the
“Byler / Putbrese”
electors, and the second to officially
pledge the “Frye / White”
electors.
And in order to make
certain that votes placed at the
ballot-box are able to be accurately
matched to the appropriate group of
electors [on Monday, November 26, 2012,
when the Virginia SBE meets to ascertain
the results of the presidential
election], I strongly recommended that
you draft the assistance of two
stand-in / placeholder
Vice-Presidential candidates, so that
each group of electors is pledged to a
uniquely identifiable “choice of
candidates.”
Otherwise, there would
simply be no way for anyone to ensure the
proper enforcement of Virginia
Code § 24.2-644C,
which requires that “a write-in vote
cast for candidates for President and
Vice-President .
. . be
counted for the individual electors
listed on the declaration of intent as
pledged to those candidates.” By
employing the method suggested in my
proposal, it enables the Virginia SBE
(without excuse) to accurately match each
vote cast to its intended group of
electors.
To everyone of you who have followed us
this far into the process,
“Congratulations!” You
have successfully turned the “first
key,” and I salute your diligence as
well as your devotion to patriotism!
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The
turning of the second
key: This
brings us to the next step of my
proposal, which is equally essential. In
order for your campaign to proceed and
for your choice of candidates to
successfully qualify for equal
consideration at Virginia’s
electoral college, a “second
key” must be turned — your
choice of candidates must (in essense) be
ratified by voters at the
ballot-box.
This can be accomplished with just two
write-in votes from among the voting
electorate. One
to slate your first choice of candidates,
as pledged by the “Byler / Putbrese”
electors. And
one to slate your second choice of
candidates, as pledged by the “Frye / White”
electors.
Where a particular choice of candidates
has received no votes, such candidates
should not be taken into consideration by
any elector (according to my humble
opinion), since it would represent a
choice of candidates not directly slated
by the voters.
But where a choice of
candidates has indeed received votes from
among the electorate, even if it were
only one single vote, accompanied by no
others throughout the entire state, any
elector winning the general election, who
is pledged to that particular choice of
candidates [according to the proper
filing of Form SBE-501(1)/542 (Rev.
11/09) or Form SBE-644 (Rev. 4/11)],
would be both qualified and obligated, in
good faith, to give that choice equal
consideration at the electoral
college.
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Remember:
Two
keys
must be turned (figuratively
speaking) in order for a
grassroots candidate to qualify
for equal consideration at
Virginia’s Electoral
College.
The
“first key” is turned
by you, when you file your
choice of candidates with the
State Board of Elections.
The
“second key” is turned
by the electorate, when a
vote is cast for your choice of
candidates at the ballot-box.
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Victory requires a
three-way
match:
In the final analysis, your
choice of candidates will have
successfully qualified for equal
consideration at the electoral college,
so long as the following three conditions
have been properly met:
(1) The
electors affiliated with your choice of
candidates must
be elected and (thus) declared the
official winners of the Virginia general
election, which
is to be held on Tuesday, November 6,
2012.
(2) They
must
be officially pledged to your choice of
candidates, either by the filing
of Form SBE-501(1)/542 (Rev. 11/09)
[which is required of “Ballot
Access”
candidates] or the filing of Form SBE-644
(Rev. 4/11) [which is required of “Write-In”
candidates].
(3) At
least one of the votes received by each
winning elector must
correspond to your choice of candidates. This
is required in order to
demonstrate that the electorate has
recognized your choice of candidates, by
taking the appropriate step of ratifying
the validity of that choice at the
ballot-box.
Note: The
full reporting of some of this
information will not be made publicly
available until the State Board of
Elections' Canvass on Monday, November
26, 2012, when the Virginia SBE meets to
ascertain the results of the presidential
election.
It will be instructive to note that the
casting of just one vote would satisfy
this third condition with ample
sufficiency,
since
there is no such thing as a “no” vote in a
presidential election. On the
contrary, every vote cast in such an
election constitutes the signaling of “yes”
to a particular slate of electors, pledged to a
particular choice of
candidates. Every vote,
therefore, is a vote that is fitted to
serve only one purpose: The
ratification of a proposed choice —
a choice that (by law) had to be
established with clarity, “not
less than ten days before the date of the
presidential election,”
according to Virginia Code § 24.2-644C.
In this sense, no single vote can be
canceled out by another. And
so whether it is the vote of one-million
men, or the vote of one, lone individual —
on the whole, both votes carry the same
weight in terms of satisfying this
particular requirement.
[So goes the saying, “One man, with
courage, is a majority.”]
It should be further noted that the
combination and proper attendance of
these three particular conditions
not only qualifies your choice of
candidates to receive equal consideration
at the electoral college, but it in fact obligates
the electors (in good faith) to give your
choice equal consideration during each
and every phase of their electoral
deliberations.
Should they refuse to do so, I believe it
would constitute an act of treason, the
likes of which our Commonwealth has never
before seen.
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