[ April 19, 2024 ]
Another Democrat strategy to undermine the electoral process vanquished.
The unanimous decision in the “faithless elector” case was a defeat for advocates of changing the Electoral College
The 538 people who cast the actual votes for president in December as part of the Electoral College are not free agents and must vote as the laws of their states direct, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.
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The unanimous decision in the “faithless elector” case was a defeat for advocates of changing the Electoral College, who hoped a win would force a shift in the method of electing presidents toward a nationwide popular vote. But it was a win for state election officials who feared that empowering rogue electors would cause chaos.
Supreme Court rules presidential electors must back their state’s popular vote winner
By Bob Fredericks, NY Post, July 6, 2020:
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that states can require presidential electors to back their states’ popular vote winner in the Electoral College.
The ruling, just under four months before the 2020 election, leaves in place laws in 32 states and the District of Columbia that bind their share of the 538 electors to vote for the states’ popular-vote winner. Electors almost always do so anyway.
The unanimous decision in the “faithless elector” case was a defeat for those who want to change the Electoral College, and who believed a win would lead to presidential elections based on the popular or total number of votes.
But it was a win for state election officials who feared that giving more power to electors to make their own choice would cause chaos, the network said.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by more than 2.6 million ballots, but President Trump won the Electoral College.
The closest Electoral College margin in recent years was in 2000, when Republican George W. Bush received 271 votes to 266 for Democrat Al Gore. One elector from Washington, DC, left her ballot blank.
The Supreme Court played a decisive role in that election, ending a recount in Florida, where Bush held a 537-vote margin out of 6 million ballots cast.
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15 Comments
3 years ago
Huge! Great news. Of course, some Democrat states may change their own laws, but then some electors could vote Republican.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
They may try and go rogue anyway. The Constitution and what the Scotus says mean nothing to them. The best way to do this? For every state that refuses to follow the law, the President chooses 5 states whose Electoral votes will not count.
3 years ago
Do they have to back the voter fraud that will occur in most democRAT run states? If they suspect or know of voter fraud, should they should refuse to cast their vote?
3 years ago
Reply to
Mohammed_Goldberg
Good question. If they suspect fraud, what then? This is a move to the popular vote. Something the democrats are good at corrupting.
3 years ago
The ruling is electors must abide by State law or face consequences. It’s up to the State to maintain the pledge of the electors.
3 years ago
Reply to
ChevyGuy
No it affects federal elections and violates the pledge they made to voters. It’s not just a state issue.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
That may be true, but it’s not what this ruling was about in Colorado vs Baca. SCOTUS cited Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, which “gives the States far-reaching authority over presidential electors, absent some other constitutional constraint.”
3 years ago
Reply to
ChevyGuy
When it comes to federal elections it matters! The electoral college affects federal elections and this ruling does not violate the Constitution.
Article II, Section 1 establishes that the president has the power to run the executive branch of the government. …
Article II, Section 1 establishes that the president and vice president are to be elected at the same time and serve the same four-year term.
BTW it was so obvious even then the liberals folded on this one – it was a unanimous ruling and a blow to moving to the popular vote!
3 years ago
I guess that is supposed to restore my faith in the black robes after they redefine sex in the 1964 Civil Rights act to include FEELINGS of those who fantasize irrational FEELINGS matter over the biological FACT that you are either a male or a female and that being the intent of the 1964 Civil Rights Act – not giving standing to mental/emotional illness as normal.
3 years ago
APPARENTLY THE JUSTICES NEVER READ THE CONSTITUTION …. NOWHERE IN THERE DOES IT SAY THAT AN ELECTOR HAS TO ABIDE BY WHAT THE POPULATION OF THE STATE VOTES. READ THE DAMNED THING YOURSELVES IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME. ARTICLE II, SECTION 1, SECOND PARAGRAPH.
3 years ago
Reply to
Valhallabound319
So this could mean all the democrats have to do is continue to try to fix the popular vote with illegals, laxed voting registrars, dead voters etc. This ruling almost caters to their MO. This seems outrageous, right before the election! Makes you think the Democrats already have a fix in place against Trump.
3 years ago
‘The Supreme Court played a decisive role in that election, ending a
recount in Florida, where Bush held a 537-vote margin out of 6 million
ballots cast.’
The lieberal a$$hole writers of Family Guy made it seem as if the FL election had been fixed in Bush’s favour. I believed it myself back then.
3 years ago
So this means a few electorial college voters would have been easier to be corrupted, or implanted rather than committing fraud against the popular vote of the state? Guess the liberals will just have to defraud the people their good ole fashion way. With illegals and dead voters. Which pretty Much plays into their MO anyway! Now they can try to punish the electrrial college when the fraud popular vote is corrupted.
3 years ago
So much for the faithless elector initiative promoted by Follywood in 2016 by such washed up actors like “B.J.” and “Hot Lips” of MASH fame.
Thanks for ruining 40 years of fond MASH memories whose reruns I no longer watch.
3 years ago
Democrat state legislatures are trying to flip their state’s electoral votes so that they can give their votes to the national majority thus overriding their state’s majority, which is why they desperately need mail-in voter fraud and illegals voting to establish a permanent phony national majority.
