Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Jim Noble

Maybe this will help others if I have it correct:

Myself and other voters in my state cast our votes.
The winner, in my state, is Trump.
The GOP in my state selects the electors.
It is assumed that those electors chosen by the winning party of my state will vote for Trump at the convention.

However, if one or two choose not too, that is legal except now they will lose any love they may have had from the party leadership.


115 posted on 08/21/2019 4:12:59 PM PDT by snippy_about_it
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 82 | View Replies ]


To: snippy_about_it

That’s almost right.

Your State Legislature has plenary authority to choose electors. All Legislatures have passed laws describing the process they will follow to do the choosing.

It also happens that all 50 Legislatures have chosen to use people voting as the method by which the Legislature does the choosing. This is not required by the Constitution, which has no provision for parties, nominations, conventions. “running”, “calling states”, or any of that other nonsense.

It’s my opinion that all laws which pretend to bind electors are unconstitutional. Once the 535 Electors are chosen, they are (legally) free to choose any eligible person as President. The 3 Electors Congress awarded itself in 1960 may be different.


148 posted on 08/21/2019 5:28:11 PM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 115 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson