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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Pennsylvania GOP Slams Secretary of State for Releasing Contact Info of Electors Pennsylvania Republicans are livid with the secretary of state's office for releasing not only the names of the state's electors, but also their home addresses and phone numbers. The GOP is calling the move "unprecedented." Going by recent history, it certainly is. Previously, the secretary of state's office would release the names and home counties of electors. Now all of a sudden, Democratic Secretary of State Pedro A. Cortés discovered a way to release the personal contact information of electors, despite the fact the state had never done so previously. Cortés's office claims they were just following the law on public documents. The GOP isn't buying it. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review interviewed two other electors -- Craig Stewart, of Cumberland County, and Ash Khare of Warren County -- who each said they had also received thousands of emails. "Most of the emails that I read were sincere and respectful," Stewart told the Tribune-Review, "but I don't even bother reading them anymore. Who can read 20,000 emails?" "Previously, the Pennsylvania Department of State redacted everything except for names for these types of requests," said state GOP spokeswoman Megan Sweeney. "The Department of State's actions are directly responsible for the unprecedented harassment and potential endangering of Pennsylvania's electors by people who want the electors to ignore the will of the people." Lawyers from the state Republican Party and Trump's campaign are exploring their legal options, Sweeney said. Pennsylvania has 20 Electoral College electors. State parties select their 20 electors months before the election and submit them to the Department of State. When voters voted for Trump, they were actually voting for his slate of electors, who will gather Dec. 19 at the capitol to cast their votes for president in the state's Electoral College. There is no U.S. Constitutional provision or federal law that requires electors to vote according to the results of the popular vote in their states. Murren noted that the department had posted only the names and home counties of the electors on its website. However, she said, under state election law, the list of electors is a public document. The department followed the Election Code requirements by releasing the list, upon request, to registered voters, she said. But the state Republican Party is not having it. "These electors were never on the ballot, nor were they ever candidates," Sweeney said. "Nevertheless, Governor Tom Wolf's Department of State chose to break with precedent and release the phone numbers and home addresses of Pennsylvania's twenty electors." Poster Comment: Just when you think Dems couldn't sink any lower. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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