PSPECTACLE.
PSTEWART: THEY CAME IN FACT FROM
PALL OVER THE STATE HERE TO THE
PCAPITAL THIS MORNING TO WATCH
PWHAT MOST YEARS IS A PRETTY
PROUTINE EXERCISE.
PAS VERMONT'S THREE MEMBERS OF
PTHE ELECTORAL COLLEGE ACTUALLY
PCAST THEIR BALLOTS FOR PRESIDENT
PAND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
PSTATES BUT THE 2016 ELECTION OF
PCOURSE ANYTHING BUT ROUTINE.
P>> TELL ME WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS
PLIKE!
P>> TELL ME WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS
PLIKE!
P>> ONE PERSON ONE VOTE!
P>> ONE PERSON ONE VOTE!
P>> AT THE STATE HOUSE A COUPLE
PHUNDRED PEOPLE JAMMED INTO THE
PMEETING WHERE THE THREE
PELECTORAL COLLEGE MEMBERS WERE
PABOUT TO VOTE FOR HILLARY
PCLINTON WHO EASILY WON VERMONT'S
PPOPULAR VOTE IN NOVEMBER OF
PCOURSE AND THERE WAS NO DOUBT
PHOW THIS WOULD GO TODAY.
PALL DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERS OF
PCOURSE.
PMOST IN THE CROWD SEEMED TO WANT
PTO VENT TO EXPRESS ANXIETY OVER
PTHE ELECTION AND HOPE AGAINST
PHOPE AT LEAST 37 ELECTORS IN
POTHER STATES MIGHT DEFECT FROM
PTRUMP AND ELECT CLINTON TODAY.
PIN MANY STATES THERE IS LITTLE
POR NO PENALTY FOR DOING THAT.
P>> MY FEELING IS THE ELECTORAL
PCOLLEGE ACTUALLY HAS A PURPOSE
PAND THAT WE NEED TO USE IT FOR
PTHAT PURPOSE AND THAT WAS TO
PPREVENT SOMEBODY WHO IS CLEARLY
PUNFIT FOR OFFICE FROM TAKING
POFFICE.
P>> THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE
PSPOKEN THROUGH THE ELECTORAL
PCOLLEGE PROCESS.
PDONALD TRUMP IS THE
PPRESIDENT-ELECT.
PWE ALL HAVE TO HOPE FOR THE
PBEST
PSTEWART: GOVERNOR SHUMLIN CALLED
PDONALD TRUMP THE LEAST QUALIFIED
PCANDIDATE EVER TO WIN THE
PPRESIDENCY IN HIS LIFETIME BUT
PSAID HE IS URGING DEMOCRATS TO
PORGANIZE, GET VERY INVOLVED AT
PEVERY LEVEL, AND PREPARE FOR THE
PMID TERMS IN 2018 AND BEYOND.
PNOW, IN VERMONT, THE SO-CALLED
PROGUE ELECTORS OR SOMETIMES
PCALLED FAITHLESS ELECTORS HAVE
PBEEN VERY RARE INDEED.
PIN FACT, STATE LAW REQUIRES THEM
PIT TO CAST THEIR BALLOT FOR THE
PWINNER OF THE POPULAR VOTE.
PTHE PENALTY IS A $500 FINE.
PNOW, TODAY'S THREE BALLOTS CAST
PHERE IN MONTPELIER WILL JOIN
PTHOSE IN EVERY OTHER STATE AND
PWILL BE FORMALLY COUNTED BY
PCONGRESS WHEN THEY RECONVENE IN
PJANUARY.
