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Showing Original Post only (View all)Supreme Court says states may require presidential electors to support popular-vote winner [View all]
Source: washtington post
State officials in Colorado and Washington had asked the court to settle the matter in case Novembers election proves close enough that a small number of what are sometimes called faithless electors could determine the outcome. The 2000 election, for instance, was decided by five electoral votes.
This story is developing and will be updated.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-electoral-college-faithless-electors/2020/07/06/cf88f706-bf8f-11ea-b178-bb7b05b94af1_story.html
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Supreme Court says states may require presidential electors to support popular-vote winner [View all]
Javaman
Jul 2020
OP
There is no constitutional requirement that mandates a state's electors vote for the winner.
Kaleva
Jul 2020
#5
Here is the list of states that require electors to vote for the winner in their state
Kaleva
Jul 2020
#7
The CT that has been posted over the weekend is that Trump will challenge the popular vote
Fiendish Thingy
Jul 2020
#10
The only reason he wants to win is to avoid jail and the label of "loser" nt
Fiendish Thingy
Jul 2020
#26
Two of the most important people, Madison and Hamilton, who devised the Electoral College
marie999
Jul 2020
#17
This Wikipedia page has an excellent list of all past faithless electors...
PoliticAverse
Jul 2020
#29