| Zkuq said: Weren't the electors free to vote for whoever they wanted in not all but still a lot of cases? When there isn't a law about who the electors must vote for, isn't it more like tradition that they vote for the winner of the state? And tradition obviously isn't a rule, so by the rules, if the electoral college wouldn't have chosen Trump, it would have been by the rules (bad rules, in my opinion). |
They we're but a few states have a penalty for that ...
I don't think the electoral college is meant to overturn state representation ...
I think it was meant to make sure to uphold the consitutional requirement that every presidential candidate be at least 35 years of age and a natural born citizen ...
If a president-elect dies before the electoral college vote then picking a dead president doesn't make much sense either so the electors are meant to steer through these corner cases ...
Usually the electors from these states come from their candidates own party so the chance that they'll pick someone else is very low ...
