To: kabar
I have the same question. Faithless Electors (those who go against their state's "will" via the states vote) can be outlawed by the State, but what about when a state SANCTIONS faithless electors via the National Popular Vote compact some states have entered into?
23 posted on
07/06/2020 7:51:56 AM PDT by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: usconservative
Yes. The “Popular Vote Compact” is the next big crisis as I see it. It needs to be declared unconstitutional.
28 posted on
07/06/2020 7:55:12 AM PDT by
rlmorel
("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
To: usconservative
Right. This decision could actually help that movement if SCOTUS means that the electors’ vote is bound by the state legislature and Executive who have passed these laws.
48 posted on
07/06/2020 8:20:34 AM PDT by
kabar
To: usconservative
It strengthens it. Remember the Constitution says the state legislature decides how to assign their EC votes. It doesn’t have to have anything to do with popular vote, on any level. They can just tell electors how to vote. They could flip a coin. They could make it dependent on the weather. Or a sporting event. Whatever they want, however they want, just so long as it happens on the approved schedule. And this reiterates that the Electors have to do what their legislature tells them too.
107 posted on
07/06/2020 11:53:19 AM PDT by
discostu
(Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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