Martin Sheen and other celebrities urge electoral college to vote against Donald Trump at Monday's electoral college vote

On Monday December 19, members of the US electoral college will convene in several state capitals in the US to cast their votes as pressure continues to mount on some electors to select someone other than president-elect, Donald Trump.

Despite the growing call to dump Trump which has made some electors to waver, there is still little evidence that Trump will fall short after Monday's vote.

Among those calling on Republican electors not to cast their vote for Trump on Monday are Hollywood actors like Martin Sheen (Charlie Sheen's father), Debra Messing who are also joined by a host of other celebrities - including musician Moby.

In an argument put forward in the United for America clip, it said that - Mr Trump is not fit to be president of the United States, therefore members of the Electoral College should block his entry to the White House.
 
In a YouTube video Sheen said:

"Our founding fathers built the Electoral College to safeguard the American people from the dangers of a demagogue and to ensure that the presidency only goes to someone who is, to an eminent degree, endowed with the requisite qualifications".

GOP elector, Carole Joyce, 72 of Arizona expected her role to be pretty simple when she said she would meet the other electors in Phoenix and carry out a vote for Trump, who won the most votes in her state and whom she personally supported. 

The Republican state committee woman said; but then came the mail and the emails and the phone calls — first hundreds, then thousands of voters worrying Trump’s impulsive nature would lead the country into another war.

“Honestly, it had an impact,” said Joyce.

“I’ve seen enough funerals. I’m tired of hearing bagpipes. . . But I signed a loyalty pledge. And that matters.”

538 men and women are scheduled to meet Monday across the country to carry out their votes in what has traditionally been a perfunctory vote after most every presidential election. 

 

This year, the role of elector has intensified in the wake of a bitter election in which Trump lost the popular vote by a margin of nearly 3 million to Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump won November's presidential election, the idea was that these elite “electors” would make up their own minds on who should be president, rather than having the American people actually vote on the matter. So this seems to many like a transparent attempt for the losing side to change the election result.

To be clear: Considering who the electors pledged to Trump are, how many are pledged to him, what they’ve said publicly, and the existence of American norms that have been built up over hundreds of years, it is incredibly unlikely that there will be any Electoral College surprise.
Thirty-seven electors would need to defect from Trump’s camp to deprive him of the Electoral College majority he needs to become president. But only one of those 306 electors pledged to him has publicly said he’s revolting. A survey of electors by the Associated Press and a whip count by the RNC both failed to turn up any others who said they’d do so.

On Thursday, Joyce said she received so many letters that the letter carrier just gave her a U.S. Postal Service bucket filled to the brim. “I’m sorry this is happening to you,” Joyce recalled the letter carrier saying in a phone interview.

While some electors have complained of harassment, Joyce shrugged off the mail and placed it all on a sofa decorated with American flag pillows. “This is America,” she said, adding that most of the messages were thoughtful. “People have a right to say what they want.”

On Friday, she said, her emails became more positive. The messages were from Republicans, thanking her for taking Trump to the finish line of an arduous process. “How refreshing!” she said.
Watch Martin Sheen's video below:

Source: LindaIkeji