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(35,454 posts)
Sat Nov 14, 2020, 02:20 PM Nov 2020

Re:THe So-Called Faithless Electors Plan THe Trump KnuckleHeads Are Pushing

In JUly 2020. the SC already Ruled On This

‘WASHINGTON —
Anxious to avoid chaos in the electoral college just months before the November vote, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that electors who formally select the president can be required by the state they represent to cast their ballot for the candidate who won their state’s popular vote.

The justices unanimously rejected the claim that electors have a right under the Constitution to defy their states and vote for the candidate of their choice.

“Electors are not free agents,” Justice Elena Kagan said for the court in Chiafalo vs. Washington. “They are to vote for the candidate whom the state’s voters have chosen.” Article II of the Constitution and the 12th Amendment “give states broad power over electors, and give electors themselves no rights,” she said.”
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https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-07-06/supreme-court-electoral-college-states-voters

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/07/14/supreme-courts-faithless-electors-decision-validates-case-for-the-national-popular-vote-interstate-compact/

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Re:THe So-Called Faithless Electors Plan THe Trump KnuckleHeads Are Pushing (Original Post) Me. Nov 2020 OP
Which state do you think Biden electors would switch to Trump? Fiendish Thingy Nov 2020 #1
Exactly Me. Nov 2020 #2

Fiendish Thingy

(15,651 posts)
1. Which state do you think Biden electors would switch to Trump?
Sat Nov 14, 2020, 02:34 PM
Nov 2020

Considering they are selected by the Party/campaign.

Hillary is a NY elector, don’t think she’ll be flipping...

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