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So as a result of this ruling, states cannot pass laws directing the votes of electoral college electors.
Just out of curiosity but currently most states have passed laws forcing electors to vote with the popular vote of that state. Now they don't have to? So Trump can win a state but the electors can vote for another candidate?
Just out of curiosity but currently most states have passed laws forcing electors to vote with the popular vote of that state. Now they don't have to? So Trump can win a state but the electors can vote for another candidate?
I'm not sure about that. I think they have to vote for the winner. It's designed like that. If not then elections could be manipulated by the electors. How would that work anyway? So and so wins the state but the electors vote for someone who got 1% of the vote? I would think that would be illegal since it's subverting the will of the people.
I'm not sure about that. I think they have to vote for the winner. It's designed like that. If not then elections could be manipulated by the electors. How would that work anyway? So and so wins the state but the electors vote for someone who got 1% of the vote? I would think that would be illegal since it's subverting the will of the people.
That's originally how the EC was designed to be. The Electors themselves are elected by the people but not actually beholden to vote with the people as how the FF envisioned. These laws forcing them to vote with the state popular vote came later. Usually they just result in fines but now that this court made this ruling, I'm genuinely curious about the implications.
So as a result of this ruling, states cannot pass laws directing the votes of electoral college electors. This will effectively void numerous laws recently passed in Democrat led states that allocate all electoral votes from their state to whoever the national winner of the popular vote is.
Just so everyone knows, state parties select the electors for their candidate and if their candidate wins, so do their hand-picked electors.
The US Constitution is a sublimely beautiful and magnificent document. What a great ruling. The US Constitution wins again.
And the Democrats are thankfully blocked in their effort to improperly interfere and try to rig our presidential election process.
You read that entire decision and came up with that title, this was a democratic party representative that voted for Kasich rather than following the popular vote and voting for Clinton. This is the process in most states not just blue states and the ruling is over one individual so you are inflating.
Almost all state electoral college representatives vote with the popular vote, this is not just a democratic issue. Kind of a weird process since one person can change their mind and vote their own opinion negating thousands of voters, so why even bother with the popular vote.
You read that entire decision and came up with that title, this was a democratic party representative that voted for Kasich rather than following the popular vote and voting for Clinton. This is the process in most states not just blue states and the ruling is over one individual so you are inflating.
Almost all state electoral college representatives vote with the popular vote, this is not just a democratic issue. Kind of a weird process since one person can change their mind and vote their own opinion negating thousands of voters, so why even bother with the popular vote.
Duh, the popular vote within the state is who won the damn state. What some states wanted to do was make the electors vote for the popular vote overall, meaning nationwide no matter who won the state.
That's originally how the EC was designed to be. The Electors themselves are elected by the people but not actually beholden to vote with the people as how the FF envisioned. These laws forcing them to vote with the state popular vote came later. Usually they just result in fines but now that this court made this ruling, I'm genuinely curious about the implications.
Can you post a link to the information where the electors voting for the popular state vote came later? I can't see that as a workable system if they didn't. If that was the case then why even have the people vote and just leave it to the electors?
God forbid that voters actually get to vote directly for the candidate of their choice. The electoral college plus gerrymandering are the only way that republican candidates can win elections these days.
what kind of stupid are you on that you only blame gerrymandering on republicans? pull your head out
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