The Uniform Law Commission has drafted and recommended a law called the Uniform Faithful Presidential Electors Act that provides for electors to pledge to vote for a candidate, and for them to be replaced with an alternate in the event that they do not vote as pledged. As of October 2019, that Act has been adopted by Indiana, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, and Washington.
11/18/2020 · So, about the states which allow for faithless electors . 33 states and D.C. have laws which mandate electors vote according to their state or District’s popular vote. This includes Florida. These laws were recently challenged before the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled in favor of state’s right to outlaw faithless electors .
7/6/2020 · Thirty-two states have some sort of faithless elector law, but only 15 of those remove, penalize or simply cancel the votes of the errant electors. The 15 are Michigan, Colorado, Utah, Arizona,…
11/4/2020 · In 1968, a North Carolina elector voted for George Wallace instead of Richard Nixon, but said explicitly later that he wouldn’t have done this if it would have.
Supreme Court: State ‘Faithless Elector’ Laws …
Supreme Court: State ‘Faithless Elector’ Laws …
Faithless elector is a term used to describe a member of the Electoral College who does not vote for his or her party’s nominee for president or vice president. One argument against the use of the term faithless elector is that it suggests that all electors are legally required to vote for their party’s nominee.
7/7/2020 · “The presidential election process in this country is contentious enough. In modern times, acting as an elector is essentially an honorary role and the actual vote of electors is largely symbolic,” a post on the site reads. “That being the case, there’s no good reason for an individual elector to place his or her judgment in front of the decision the people of that state made on …
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