Electoral Vote Not Siding With State

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Electoral vote not siding with state.

States can require electoral college voters to back the victor of their state s popular vote the supreme court ruled unanimously monday. Ratified on march 29 1961 it grants the district of columbia the number of electors that does not exceed the number of votes granted to the least populous state which is three. Mitt romney r ut has said he will not vote for trump although he has not endorsed joe biden. Two cases were brought by electoral college voters in.

Both campaigns are actively going after the mormon vote. To win a modern presidential election a candidate needs to capture 270 of the 538 total electoral votes. Faithless electors have never changed the outcome of a u s. The justices unanimously rejected the claim that electors have a right under the constitution to defy their states and vote for the candidate of their choice.

Thirty three states plus the district of columbia have laws against faithless electors which were first enforced after the 2016 election where ten electors voted or attempted to vote contrary to their pledges. Instead citizens in each state vote for electors and the. As of may 2020 14 states and washington d c adopted legislation to join the national popular vote interstate compact. Together they represent 187 electoral college votes.

Thirty two states as well as the district of columbia prohibit electoral college members to support a candidate contrary to popular vote. States are allotted electoral votes based on the number of representatives they have in. Essentially the amendment extends the rights of a state to the district. This result occurred because according to article ii section 1 of the constitution americans do not vote directly for the president.

Electors are not free agents. A faithless elector is one who does not cast an electoral vote for the candidate of the party for whom that elector pledged to vote. The state does not possess countervailing authority to remove an elector and to cancel his vote in response to the exercise of that constitutional right the ruling said. However fifteen states not only require electors to.