(January 4, 2025 at 4:55 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(January 4, 2025 at 4:50 pm)Ravenshire Wrote: 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
(January 4, 2025 at 4:55 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(January 4, 2025 at 4:50 pm)Ravenshire Wrote: 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
Acting to preserve democracy at the national level would be a greater act of integrity.
(January 4, 2025 at 5:00 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Not to mention that many states have laws against electors voting otherwise.
And few of those states have any method of enforcement for those laws.
Faithless ballots are cast nearly every election cycle, though they have never changed an election. To describe those who would defend democracy as men without integrity would be akin to claiming the founders of the country had no integrity since they committed treason to attain their goals.
Would that 44 men would put the good of the nation above the petty squabbling of politics.
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