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December 21, 2016

From Maine to Hawaii, Electoral College votes cast for Bernie Sanders

By Jean Hay Bright

Maine Democratic Electoral College elector David Bright tried to cast his vote for Bernie Sanders Monday, but his vote was ruled invalid.  In a second round of voting, he cast his vote for Hillary Clinton, who won the statewide vote in Maine.In Minnesota, Elector Muhammad Abdurrahman wanted to vote for Sanders, but instead he was replaced by someone who voted for Clinton.In Hawaii, Elector David Mulinix saw the video of David Bright trying ...

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Bernie Sanders with supporters
Bernie Sanders with supporters
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Maine Democratic Electoral College elector David Bright tried to cast his vote for Bernie Sanders Monday, but his vote was ruled invalid.  In a second round of voting, he cast his vote for Hillary Clinton, who won the statewide vote in Maine.

In Minnesota, Elector Muhammad Abdurrahman wanted to vote for Sanders, but instead he was replaced by someone who voted for Clinton.

In Hawaii, Elector David Mulinix saw the video of David Bright trying to vote for Bernie Sanders, and decided at the last minute to vote for Sanders.  His vote, unlike Bright's and Abdurrahman's, will count in the Electoral College totals.



Authors Bio:

Writer and political activist Jean Hay Bright is now semi-retired, running an organic farm in Dixmont Maine with her husband David Bright. Her two political books are "Proud to be a Card-Carrying, Flag-Waving, Patriotic American Liberal (1996), and "A Tale of Dirty Tricks: Susan Collins v. Public Record" (2002) about Maine's 1996 U.S. Senate race. In 2006, she was Maine's Democratic candidate who ran against U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe. Her 2003 memoir, "Meanwhile, Next Door to the Good Life," about homesteading next to authors Helen and Scott Nearing, was revised in 2013 to include a chapter on Scott Nearing's FBI file.


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