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Seth Meyers: The Trump Administration Gives Up on Controlling the Coronavirus Pandemic

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Eclectic Cyborg10/26/2020 9:14:41 pm PDT

re: #104 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

There’s a lot more to it than that. Gore. v. Bush should have taught us that.

First, courts will be involved to discount votes. Then appellate courts. Then supreme courts.

And yes, electors can do what they want. You may claim it is illegal because some elector is from a state where the law says the elector has to vote a certain way, but what happens if the elector chooses to be unfaithful?

There are 33 states (plus the District of Columbia) that require electors to vote for a pledged candidate. Most of those states (16 plus DC) nonetheless do not provide for any penalty or any mechanism to prevent the deviant vote from counting as cast. Five states provide a penalty of some sort for a deviant vote, and 14 states provide for the vote to be canceled and the elector replaced (two states do both). The constitutionality of these laws was upheld by the Supreme Court in Chiafalo v. Washington on July 6, 2020.

Source: FairVote