DAY LONG AND JOINS US LIVE NOW
FROM TALLAHASSEE.
MIKE?
Reporter: GOOD AFTERNOON,
JEN.
TODAY'S MEETING OF THE
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS WAS THE
MOST CONTROVERSIAL I HAVE
COVERED AND THE FIRST ONE WAS
1976.
THOUSANDS WROTE LETTERS.
HUNDREDS MORE CAME TO PROTEST.
AND IN THE END, DURING THE 18
MINUTES IT TOOK THE ELECTORS TO
VOTE, YOU COULD HEAR A PIN
DROP.
HUNDREDS OF LETTERS ARRIVED
AT ELECTOR BRIAN BALLARD'S
OFFICE OVER THE WEEKEND.
MORE CAME LAST WEEK.
MOST, IF NOT ALL, ASKED BALLARD
TO VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON, OR
ANYONE BUT DONALD TRUMP.
THEIR EFFORTS WERE WASTED.
BALLARD IS AS STAUNCH A TRUMP
SUPPORTER AS THEY COME.
THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE OF
FLORIDA.
HE WON FLORIDA.
I VOTED FOR HIM.
I SUPPORTED HIM.
I RAISED MONEY.
I REPRESENT HIM.
AMONG THE MAIL, COPIES OF
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS WHERE
ALEXANDER HAMILTON SAYS THE
ELECTORAL COLLEGE WAS A GOOD
THING FOR AMERICA.
IT WAS ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S
ESSAY ON THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
THAT INSPIRED SOME PROTESTERS
TO TRY TO CHANGE THE ELECTOR'S
MINDS.
THIS IS ABOUT GETTING OUR
ELECTORAL VOTERS AN OPPORTUNITY
TO SAVE OUR CONSCIENCE AND
MAYBE SAVE OUR FREEDOMS.
VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE.
THE CROWD OF PROTESTERS GREW
TO BETWEEN 3 AND 400 BY THE
TIME THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
DONE DONE -- CONVENED.
18 MINUTES LATER, IT WAS
OVER.
LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT
DONALD J. TRUMP RECEIVED 29
ELECTORAL VOTES FOR PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES.
AS ELECTORS APPLAUDED AND
CHEERED PROTESTERS OUTSIDE
MARK STOWE FROM GAINESVILLE
KNEW IT WAS A LOST CAUSE.
THESE PEOPLE AT SOME POINT
WILL REGRET WHAT THEY DID
TODAY.
BUT IN THE ENDS, ELECTORS
SELECTED THE MAN VOTERS
PREFERRED BY MORE THAN 100,000
VOTES.
AND UNDER FLORIDA LAW, THE
ELECTORS WERE REQUIRED TO VOTE
FOR DONALD J TRUMP.
THEY SWORE AN OATH TO DO THAT.
WE ASKED ONE ELECT FER THAT
REALLY MATTERED TO HIM, AND
