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To: JBW1949
Most electors must vote the way the constituents vote the first ballot...

Where is *that* written?

Link please

25 posted on 10/23/2016 7:14:33 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Roccus
Link please

Dont hold your breath. FR is degenerating to the level of Facebook as far as veracity is concerned.

45 posted on 10/23/2016 7:26:19 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Roccus; JBW1949

http://history.house.gov/Institution/Electoral-College/Electoral-College/

Electors

Most states require that all electoral votes go to the candidate who receives the majority in that state. After state election officials certify the popular vote of each state, the winning slate of electors meet in the state capital and cast two ballots—one for Vice President and one for President. Electors cannot vote for a Presidential and Vice Presidential candidate who both hail from an elector’s home state.

The contested 1876 Presidential election brought Senators, and the electoral certificates under investigation, into the House Chamber.
Maine and Nebraska employ a “district system” in which two at-large electors vote for the state’s popular majority and one elector votes for each congressional district’s popular majority. In the November 2, 2004, election, Colorado voters rejected a “proportional system” in which electors would vote proportionally based on the state’s popular vote.


79 posted on 10/23/2016 7:47:30 PM PDT by garyb
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To: Roccus

Nowhere. It isn’t true.


107 posted on 10/23/2016 8:20:27 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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