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Subscribe to RSSAll across the country, electors (to the Electoral College) officially cast their ballots for President Obama or Mitt Romney. It was pretty standard in California, Florida, Washington, Texas, Oklahoma, Nevada, South Carolina, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, for example.
Most noted the history being made. One elector in Florida, even said, “I will quote loosely Vice President Biden: ‘This is a…uh…big deal.'”
In Arizona, though, a different story: “Arizona's 11 Republican electors formally cast their votes Monday for Mitt Romney - but not before three of them, including the state party chairman, said questions remain about whether President Obama is a natural-born citizen,” the Arizona Daily Star writes. “ ‘I'm not satisfied with what I've seen,’ said Tom Morrissey, head of the Arizona Republican Party, after signing the formal paperwork to cast his Electoral College vote for Romney. ‘I think for somebody in the president's position to not have produced a document that looks more legitimate, I have a problem with that,’ Morrissey said.”
KTAR: “College member Don Ascoli, who recently finished serving as Republican Party chairman in Gila County, said he didn't think Obama was ‘properly vetted as a legitimate candidate for president.’” More: Secretary of State Ken Bennett, who presided over the Electoral College ceremony, later said he did not share the views of the three college members, but he said the college members were exercising their First Amendment rights. Gov. Jan Brewer, who observed the ceremony, later said she disagreed with the three college members' opinions. ‘The bottom line is everybody is entitled to their own opinion. I happen to disagree,’ she said. Brewer in 2011 vetoed a bill passed by the Arizona Legislature to require Obama and other presidential candidates to prove their U.S. citizenship before their names could appear on the state's ballot.”
And in Oregon, one was missing.
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Arizona shouldn't have any electoral votes. It is no longer a state; it's a punchline.
I guess I should formally recognize that Arizona has finally wrestled the America's Stupidest State title from Oklahoma.
Convince a fool against his will, he'll keep the same opinion still.
You can't stop Arizona from being stuck on stupid.
No Al from little Visalia, the most dysfunctional state is CA as shown by the rule of the spending party, and the school system that ranks at the bottom of the 50 states, even with the money we all throw at it in our taxes.
Is Arizona the state where we've been secretly sending are mental patience. Or is that just where all the crazies go? It just goes to show, when you've got a crazy governor she leads the whole state into crazy land. Wake up Az your governors nuts.
As long as Az. has Brewer, and Sheriff Joe, they are a punchline, a joke! Nothing more!
I'm not convinced Tom Morrissey isn't one of those sleeper agents from Russia, sent to degrade our political sanity.
It's very embarrassing to have AZ as a Repub state--the governor, the sheriff, racists all--in a state with the most land area, one of highest national populations of American Indians! We regret that most of those Republicans are those that retired to our state and are mostly from other states; if you counted only the AZ populations that are actually "native" to this region, most of us are liberal, believe strongly in President Obama because he advocates for Native people and other minorities' rights and we will grow stronger as Democrats in the future.