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b_b  ·  1255 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 11, 2020

I'll nitpick a little with that, because some electors are bound by law to vote a certain way. It depends on the state. It made it to the Supreme Court recently, who affirmed that, indeed, states can require electors to vote a certain way and can replace them if they turn faithless. That said, I have no idea how many states have such laws. Otherwise, I agree with you. Hopefully the GA Senate races will have clear winners (or one clear GOP winner) on election night so that there's no obvious incentive for Mitch to keep up his antics. I find that a hard to imagine scenario however, given how close GA appears to be. What a clusterfuck.





goobster  ·  1254 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The officiant at my wedding was a WA State Elector.

And yes, while 33 states do have laws around how the Elector votes, most have no penalty and several have no recourse for if an elector fails to do their duty: https://www.fairvote.org/faithless_elector_state_laws

Not arguing with you, here. Just making sure we are all clear on the machinations and the inner workings, because you KNOW the shitweasels are working on every angle to fuck this up.

(I mean, shit... with $10m you could easily get 10-15 electors to swing with a single cash payment. And the shitweasels have a LOT more money than that to throw at stupid things...)

b_b  ·  1254 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Just this summer, the Court said that if a state has a law that says that electors have to vote a certain way, then if the vote goes another way, it's null and void (pursuant to state law).

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/06/885168480/supreme-court-rules-state-faithless-elector-laws-constitutional

It's pretty interesting that it took 240 years to test this.

The EC sucks so hard. It shouldn't exist. It's a vestige of the good old slave days, and I really hope that enough states sign onto the popular vote compact, even though that's a bandaid.

I learned only yesterday that an amendment to abolish it had the support of the House and Nixon back in 1970, only to be scuttled by a group of southern senators (surprise, surprise):