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b_b  ·  1232 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 11, 2020

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):