Electors MANDATED to vote a certain way?
Your statement-- and the fact that your opinion is widely shared, even on FR-- indicates that our Republic is ending. Oh well, America will be burning by 2025 anyway. People will get a clue.
The answer to this whole thing might be the court seeing that the right of the individual voters to know their vote will be counted via the Elector should their candidate win supersedes the right of the Elector to vote his conscience.
I explain more fully in post #28.
Elector voting conscience could be valid where the candidate dies just before or after the election, or has some significant mental or physical incapacity, commits felonies, etc. Since this is unique only to the office of the President, it seems that the Elector would affirm the VP on the ticket. This would be consistent with acting according to the will of the voters.
I know. The ignorance is shocking. An elector is just like a representative. The elector is there to vote in the state's best interest, hopefully for your guy, but their are no guarantees, just as the representative is there to vote for your districts best interest which hopefully align with yours, but again, two legged critters have minds of their own.
What we need is for the state legislatures to reclaim the right to elect Senators, so that they represent the entire state's best interests instead of just the interests of whichever leftist city is the largest in that state.