Supreme Court rules electoral college representatives must honor the choice of state's voters
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. tried to be neutral in presiding as a divided Senate judged Trump, but his refusal to intervene to allow witnesses vexed some.“Voters should go to the polls with the confidence that their vote will count and that their political system will be free from corruption,” he said. “However far from perfect the current system may be, the chaos of an unbound Electoral College would have been even worse.
Most states have laws or rules that require the electors to abide by their pledges and to follow the state’s wishes. The Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases on the issue, one from Washington, where the state prevailed, and a second one from Colorado, whose binding rules were overturned.
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