Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)
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Mihira Fernando wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>>
>> Technically, yes. That's how the Constitution designed it.
>>
>> Practically, though, no.
>>
>> Citizens, dead people, and illegal immigrants vote for Electors
>> who are pledged to vote for a specific candidate.
>
> So if the Electors suddenly decide to vote for candidate A while
> being pledged to vote for candidate B (maybe because their bank
> balance suddenly got increased by ,say, 10 mil dollars), then
> what happens ? does Candidate B become the president ? Has the
> people got no say in this ?
I just don't know. People in the Parties must have thought about
it, though. There's always the Supreme Court...
In practice, I really doubt that this could happen, because the
people who are nominated to become Electors are "party faithful",
and for a Republican activist to suddenly switch his/her vote to
Hillary Clinton, or a Demo activist to vote for W would be unlikely
at best, and immediately suspect.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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