(January 4, 2025 at 4:50 pm)Ravenshire Wrote:(January 4, 2025 at 4:41 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If those electors didn’t vote for Trump, they wouldn’t be ‘men of integrity’. Precisely the opposite, in fact.
Boru
Considering one of the reasons for the electoral college was precisely to stop a demagogue like Trump from taking power, it would take men of integrity to do so.
Our founders put these things in place for a reason, despite them not being used to the intended purpose, or indeed misused.
Electors take a pledge to vote for their party’s candidate. Voting for a candidate from another party, or voting for a non-candidate from their party, or even abstaining from voting, breaks that pledge and makes them a faithless elector.
So much for ‘integrity’.
Boru
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