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Alhena

(3,030 posts)
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 12:43 PM Nov 2020

Does this Supreme Court case remove the faithless elector concern?

This opinion says that states can pass laws preventing electors from being faithless and replacing them if they go rogue. What about states that haven't passed a law like this, though?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiafalo_v._Washington

At any rate, the existence of this Supreme Court case makes me feel a bit better, in the event that Biden gets 270 EVs.

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Proud Liberal Dem

(24,406 posts)
1. Any Elector who decides to try to pull something like this
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 12:44 PM
Nov 2020

Will instantly become the most hated and despised person in the history of this country IMHO

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PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
5. "What about states that haven't passed a law like this, though?"
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 12:55 PM
Nov 2020

States are perfectly free to allow their electors to vote their conscience.

Electors can go "faithless" in states that won't remove electors for going "faithless".

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