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thesquanderer

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23. Interesting.

Sun Aug 2, 2015, 10:59 PM

Aug 2015

It's true that the electors aren't necessarily bound to vote according to their state's election results. But I had not heard that any such decision had been made to take that route if need be (i.e. the state legislature vore you're talking about). Do you have a reference for that? When was it discovered/revealed that that had occurred?

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