Editorial: The Supreme Court bolsters democracy by letting states curb ‘faithless electors’ (via latimesopinion)
Acting on cases from Washington and Colorado, the justices held that states may punish — and even remove — electors who don’t support the presidential candidate who finished first in the popular vote there.
Today 48 states award all of their electoral votes to the winner of the statewide popular vote. Many voters likely don’t realize that they are actually choosing electors who will gather in their states in December to cast the ballots that decide the race.
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