To: Pilsner
----Presidential elector is a Federal office. There is ZERO chance that the U.S. Supreme Court would uphold a STATE law that strips an elected FEDERAL officer holder of his or her discretion.----
The Constitution doesn't require electors to vote a certain way, that's true. However, it does
not revoke the states' discretion to require its electors to obey the outcome of elections.
-Dan
To: Flux Capacitor
Imagine if a State passed a law that said that a Congresscritter could not switch parties, and that he had to vote for the nomineee of his parties caucus for Speaker / Majority Leader. Would that be upheld? No. what is the difference? What's more, the whole purpose of the Electoral College is to isolate the selection of the President from the popular vote.
107 posted on
09/08/2004 2:51:18 PM PDT by
Pilsner
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