Supporters of Secretary Clinton asked you to consider a petition entitled: Electoral College: Make Hillary Clinton President on December 19. We are asking you, even though you are completely within your right to do so, not to honor their wishes as this would be a subversion of the Democratic process already established. We ask you this not as a supporter of one particular candidate but as a supporter of Democracy.

At the onset of the Democratic primary in 2015, presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton had garnered the support of unpledged "super delegates" which were included in delegate counts reported by all major media outlets. This gave the appearance of an unfair and false significant lead to Secretary Clinton compared to her primary opponents.

In July 2016, just ahead of the start of the presidential race, Secretary Clinton was polling significantly lower than her primary opponent and there was concern that her weakness made her an unelectable candidate in the general election. Her unpledged delegates had the opportunity to switch their votes to her primary opponent in order to ensure that the Democratic party had a better chance of winning against the Republican nominee. These delegates chose not to switch and it was suggested that to do so would be undemocratic to the process, even in states where her primary opponent had a clear majority of the popular vote. Most of these unpledged delegates also did not change their vote to honor the will of the voters. Therefore, the weaker candidate was given the nomination to the detriment of the party.

Since they insisted that their candidate was the obvious choice and made the decision to take the risk, they should assume the responsibility of that loss. We could provide you with a laundry list of reasons why Secretary Clinton should not be President that would be quite longer than the list of reasons that her supporters can come up with. But the truth is, you only need one: She did not win.

Additionally they have offered to "purchase" your vote. We find this idea unethical and in direct opposition with the path we wish to take with elections.



Her supporters have spent this entire campaign making up excuses for every mistake their candidate has made. While we respect their right to their vote, nearly all votes have been tallied and the country has spoken. Now is not the time for more excuses, it is time to accept the electorate's decision and move on. Many of us already have including Senator Bernie Sanders & Elizabeth Warren who have made statements on moving forward with President-Elect Trump. Secretary Clinton has also conceded defeat and asked her supporters to move on as well.



(As a side note, the creator of this petition is a Democrat that did not vote for either candidate in this election. Most of these supporters are Democrats or identify with some of the qualities of Democrats. It is the creator's opinion that in pleading their case to the Electoral College Electors, they have demonstrated that they do not fully understand why their candidate lost which stems partly because of their own candidate but also from systemic problems within the Democratic National Committee. It would be in their best interest to address those problems by helping to fix their party instead of pointing fingers in every outward direction so that these problems don’t continue to happen in the future. This is an internal matter and it will be handled internally.)

Thank you for your time and consideration.