What, are faithless elector laws going to force an elector to vote for a dead person? We are talking about unavailable candidate or president elect. The party will put a name in. And your position is that between the dead person and the name the party provides, the electors are bound, by law, to vote for the dead person? Seems like a stupid law to me.
Also, imagine the prosecutor’s challenge in choosing a jury that would convict the “faithless” elector unanimously beyond a reasonable doubt.
>> What, are faithless elector laws going to force an elector to vote for a dead person? <<
It all depends on how the law is written in each individual state. And the U.S. Constitution is silent on such matters. So yes, a law theoretically could be written to force a vote for a dead candidate.
But that’s beside the point. The main feature to remember is that there definitely is some kind of “legal status” for the name on the ballot, when the state in question has something like a “faithless elector” law.