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(130,895 posts)for the presidential candidates they had promised to support.
. . .the Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday, curbing the independence of electors and limiting one potential source of uncertainty in the 2020 presidential election.
Thirty-two states and the District of Columbia have laws requiring electors to vote as they had promised, but recent court decisions had come to opposite conclusions about whether electors may disregard their pledges.
The Supreme Court resolved the dispute on Monday in a pair of cases concerning electors in Washington State and Colorado, by saying that states are entitled to remove or punish electors who changed their votes. In states without such penalties, electors remain free to change their votes.
The Constitutions text and the nations history both support allowing a state to enforce an electors pledge to support his partys nominee and the state voters choice for president, Justice Elena Kagan wrote for seven members of the court
Election law scholars welcomed the ruling.>
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/electoral-college-supreme-court.html?