How the electors conduct themselves in regards to representing the states is one of the few state's rights left...der Teufel wrote:OTOH, the electors do have the authority to vote for whomever they please according to whatever principles or beliefs they may hold. Otherwise, why do we have the Electoral College? Why not just automatically assign the electoral vote of the the state to the winning candidate and skip the Electoral College vote completely?
Personally, that's my preference. Skip the Electoral College shenanigans and just declare that the winning candidate gets the votes. Done!
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- Tue Dec 06, 2016 1:15 pm
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- Tue Dec 06, 2016 10:35 am
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Re: Texas Republican elector won't vote Trump
I have read that more than once that Texas never has...The Annoyed Man wrote:I heard somewhere that this would be the first time that Texas has had a faithless elector. Is that true?