MILES AN HOUR AND MADE NO
EFFORT TO STOP.
PROTESTERS HOPING TO BLOCK
DONALD TRUMP FROM WINNING THE
ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE FAILED
IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
ELECTORS FROM ALL 50 STATES
MET TO CAST VOTES, ROBERT
KITTLE IS LIVE WITH THE LATEST
ON HOW SOUTH CAROLINA'S MEETING
WENT.
Reporter: THE VOTE WENT
QUICKLY AND SMOOTHLY, THE
ELECTORS ACKNOWLEDGED THEY GOT
THOUSANDS OF EMAILS PLEADING TO
CHANGE VOTES AND EMOTIONAL
REACTION WHEN THEY DIDN'T.
75 PROTESTERS STOOD IN A COLD
RAIN ON THE STATE HOUSE STEPS,
HOPING THEIR VOICES WOULD BE
HEARD SAYING FOREIGN INVESTORS
CONTROL TRUMP AND HONOR OUR
CONSTITUTION, NOT TRUMP, HOPING
SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTORS
WOULDN'T VOTE FOR TRUMP.
ONE OF THE BIGGEST ARGUMENTS IS
A REASON FOR THE ELECTORAL
COLLEGE IS TO PREVENT FOREIGN
INFLUENCE ON OUR ELECTIONS.
IT'S SOMETHING GIVING US
GREAT CONCERN, YOU SEE
BIPARTISAN GROUP OF MEMBERS IN
THE SENATE, LINDSAY GRAM LED
WITH CHUCK SHIEWMER, SAYING WE
NEED TO INVESTIGATE AND SEE
WHAT INFLUENCE RUSSIANS HAD.
I WOULD HOPE THEY WOULD
UNDERSTAND THERE ARE DWE AS
THIS NEED TO BE ANSWERED AND
THEY WOULD NOT CAST VOTE FOR
DONALD TRUMP.
Reporter: ALL 9 ELECTORS
GAVE VOTES TO TRUMP.
WE ARE A LITTLE CONCERNED
AFTER OVER 60,000 EMAILS THESE
ELECTORS HAVE RECEIVED, WE WERE
A LITTLE NERVOUS AND DIDN'T
KNOW IF ANYONE HAD BEEN ABLE TO
FLIP.
Reporter: A PROTESTER
SCREAMED WHEN SHE HEARD THE
VOTE.
ESCORTED OUTSIDE BY SECURITY,
ALONG WITH ANOTHER PROTESTER
WHO WAS SCREAMING.
Reporter: STATE LAW REQUIRED
THE ELECTORS TO VOTE FOR THE
CANDIDATE WHO WON THE POPULAR
VOTE HERE.
WHEN I WAS ELECTEDS I MADE A
PLEDGE I WOULD VOTE FOR WHOEVER
WAS THE NOMINEE, WHOEVER WON
THE ELECTION IN THE STATE OF
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS
PLACE FAITH IN DONALD TRUMP,
FRANKLY, IT'S SOUR GRAPES FOR
THOSE WHO LOST.
Reporter: THOSE PROTESTERS
CONTINUED TO MARCH OUTSIDE
AFTER THE VOTE WAS TAKEN AND
DISPERSED AND VOW TO KEEP
MAKING VOICES HEARD AGAINST
DONALD TRUMP.
ROBERT KITTLE, 7 NEWS.
WE KNOW THE LAW SAYS THE
ELECTORS HAVE TO GO WITH THE
WAY THE STATE VOTED.
IN YEARS PAST, HAVE YOU SEEN A
MOVEMENT TO GET THEM TO CHANGE
THEIR MINDS ON THE DAY OF THE
VOTE.
Reporter: I HAVE NEVER SEEN
ONE AND I HAVE BEEN COVERING
PRESIDENTIAL RACES SINCE 1980,
GIVING AWAY MY AGE BUT NEVER
SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS AT ALL.
HERE IN COLUMBIA, I HAVE BEEN
HERE, ALMOST 28 YEARS AND HAVE
NEVER COVERED THE ELECTORAL
COLLEGE VOTE BEFORE BECAUSE
IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A FORMALITY,
NOBODY QUESTIONED WHAT WAS
GOING TO HAPPEN.
BET MOST PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW,
COMING BEFORE YESTERDAY THEY
VOTED TODAY.
IT'S A LITTLE BIT UNUSUAL.
