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| red sox 777 10/27/20 4:28:57 PM #140: | charmander6000 posted... That's what I mean, the SC has already said the states have the power to deselect/punish an elector. This was done in 2016 for three faithless electors where they were replaced or had their vote changed. The Washington faithless electors while fined still had their votes counted as that is the punishment in that state. It's not in the SC place to change the votes. But there's a potential situation where, say, whoever is in charge of running the electoral college meeting in the state allows the faithless vote to go forward. The other campaign sues, and the state courts determine that the decision was incorrect, that the elector should have been replaced under state law. Meanwhile, the electoral vote has already been cast and submitted to Congress. In that situation, I don't think the state courts have the power to stop Congress from counting the vote that was cast, and SCOTUS would also likely refuse to step in. But there's some room for ambiguity. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 Congratulations to DP Oblivion in the Guru Contest! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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