[William Tell]

Ready4Freddy said: "The Framers didn't expect slates of electors to be beholden to political parties - they wanted the electors to be able to vote for whomever they wanted. "

I'm sure that they didn't ignore the fact that electors would be elected based on which candidate the electors favored. Being beholden to political parties is just a consequence of needing to win in order to rule. The solution to this problem was to limit the power of government. Our Founders did that. Treasonous Supreme Courts have defeated it.

[Ready4Freddy]

One might wonder if being 'beholden to a political party' creates what Hamilton refered to as "..men, who might be tampered with beforehand to prostitute their votes."