I might disagree with you. They are robots. It is their duty to represent the popular vote of their state, not their personal opinion of what the popular vote should be. Free Rein is the perfect environment for graft and corruption (and personal racism - towards orange men). Like a defense attorney in court that suddenly starts acting like a prosecutor towards his client - or a boxer that throws the match - or a senator that promotes the interests of a state that may greatly harm his own - it’s just not acceptable. America was the first nation in the world to set up a system for direct election of their leaders. It’s a system that has proved successful against outside influences for over 400 years. But it’s only successful because of accountability to the people. All people. Take that away, disenfranchise poor and middle America to the advantage of urban America, and you have no nation.
DC and 26 (?) states have electors take oaths to uphold the winning majority of their own state. I guess the rest of them feel their electors are responsible enough not to have to swear to an oath.
According to the gvt link on the EC: “There has been one faithless elector in each of the following elections: 1948, 1956, 1960, 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1988. A blank ballot was cast in 2000. In 2016, seven electors broke with their state on the presidential ballot and six did so on the vice presidential ballot.”
https://history.house.gov/Institution/Electoral-College/Electoral-College/
You might? So you might also be in agreement with me. Cool!
Nope, they are not robots. It is their duty to elect a President.
We do not need representatives if robots could serve.
Those laws are just worthless paper.
A small fine after the fact? lol, the deed is done.
The delegate replacements ate be illegal, but good luck ever getting that to court. The issue is moot in 99.9999% of all cases.