re: #165 KGxvi

This is, um, interesting:

Tenth Circuit (Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Oklahoma) has ruled that the States can’t force electors to vote for the winner of the statewide vote. Which, from a technical standpoint, makes sense — we’re technically voting for electors not the president/vice-president. But that’s not really how most understand the elector system.

This likely is going to the Supreme Court because there’s a ruling from the Washington Supreme Court saying that electors can be bound by the voters.

if the electors can do what they want, there’s no need to hold presidential elections

heck it wouldnt even be a ‘formality’ because they arent related to each other in any way