Report: Pa. Electors Assigned Police Protection
PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) -- Pennsylvania's 20 electors have reportedly been bombarded by calls, emails, letters urging them not to vote for Donald Trump.
Technically, electors in Pennsylvania are not required to vote for the candidate who won the state, but defections are rare.
According to our partners at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, when the group travels to the state Capitol on Monday, they will be joined by plainclothes state police troopers for protection
Ash Kare, a Republican from Warren County, said he gets 3,000 to 5,000 emails, letters, and phone calls a day from as far away as overseas countries.
"But this is stupid. Nobody is standing up and telling these people, 'Enough, knock it off,' " he said.
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Another woman receiving many, many messages told the paper that she simply does not open them.
With few exceptions, electors have made it fairly clear that they will not defect.
Whether they like Trump or not, and some plainly don't, scores of the Republicans chosen to cast votes in the state-capital meetings told AP they feel bound by history, duty, party loyalty or the law to rubber-stamp their state's results and make him president.
Over the sweep of history, so-called faithless electors - those who vote for someone other than their state's popular-vote winner - have been exceptionally rare.
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