The Men Who Elected George Washington

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Who Were the 69 Men
Who Elected George Washington?

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Only 43,782 people voted in the Presidential election of George Washington in 1788 and only 28,579 voted to re-elect him in 1792.

The reason that so few people voted is because they understood that their vote would not be counted for the purpose of electing the President. The eligible voters understood that 69 Presidential electors would decide who would be the President. George Washington was not elected by the 3,929,214 people living in the United States, he was elected by 69 Presidential electors.

Many of the first 69 electors chosen to elect our first President were the same men who signed the Declaration of Independence and helped to write the Constitution. They did not trust the people at large with the power to elect the President. They created what is known as the electoral college in order to prevent the uneducated masses from having the power to elect the President.

Each of the electors should have the right to vote his or her own conscience and not be influenced by partisan politics. The concept of winner takes all violates the right of the Presidential electors from being able to vote their conscience. The key to restoring the Electoral College is to eliminate the influence of political parties.

The Electoral College must be preserved, but it must be restored to what it was in the elections of 1788 and 1792. Political Parties did not exist when the Electoral College was established and they were not authorized in the Constitution. The political parties enable the financial elite to control Presidential elections.

 Who are the electors  

Our system of electing a President has become a corrupt because the bankers and Wall Street corporations have turned the Electoral College into a body of partisan politicians who take their marching orders from the bankers and the Wall Street corporations.

The seats and in Congress and the Oval Office are now purchased and we the people are now being exploited by those we have elected to serve us. A large pool of ignorant and uninformed voters makes it easy for the bankers and Wall Street corporations to deceive the people and lead them into captivity.

Here is the breakdown;

Electoral college selection

The Constitution, in Article II, Section 1, provided that the state legislatures should decide the manner in which their Electors were chosen. Different state legislatures chose different methods:^[8]

Method of choosing electors	State(s)
electors appointed by state legislature	Connecticut Georgia New Jersey New York(a) South Carolina
two electors appointed by state legislature each remaining elector chosen by state legislature from top two candidates in each U. S. House district	Massachusetts
each elector chosen by voters statewide; however, if no candidate wins majority, state legislature appoints electors from top two candidates	New Hampshire
state divided into electoral districts, with one elector chosen per district by the voters of that district	Virginia(b) Delaware
electors chosen at large by voters	Maryland Pennsylvania
state had not yet ratified the Constitution	North Carolina Rhode Island

^(a) New York's legislature did not choose electors on time.
^(b) One electoral district failed to choose an elector.

Article Two of the United States Constitution

Article Two of the United States Constitution establishes the executive branch of the federal government, which carries out and enforces federal laws…