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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: People who can go fuck themselves. [View all]MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)32. Interesting...
The court ruled that the states have the right to require electors to pledge to vote for the candidate whom their party supports, and the right to remove potential electors who refuse to pledge prior to the election. The court also wrote:
However, even if such promises of candidates for the electoral college are legally unenforceable because violative of an assumed constitutional freedom of the elector under the Constitution, Art. II, § 1, to vote as he may choose in the electoral college, it would not follow that the requirement of a pledge in the primary is unconstitutional (emphasis added).[5]
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The asshole elector from Washington State who is pledged to cast a vote for Hillary
still_one
Nov 2016
#3
Because the only consequence for violating the law is a one thousand dollar fine. n/t
BzaDem
Nov 2016
#113
According to Wikipedia there are laws if they do not vote for who they are comitted
still_one
Nov 2016
#21
She should know better, having worked in Al Gore's office during 1st Clinton administration.
bullwinkle428
Nov 2016
#121
Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Corey Lewandowski, Paul Manafort, Hope Hicks, et al
dalton99
Nov 2016
#37
Those 2 think they're Prince's backup singers. I have zero time for those 2 heifers.
grossproffit
Nov 2016
#134
Seeing Rudy Giuliani picking up trash on the side of the road in an orange jumpsuit
Snake Plissken
Nov 2016
#92
'I don't vote with my vagina': why Susan Sarandon is not backing Hillary Clinton
Grey Lemercier
Nov 2016
#114
Ted Nugent is a right pronger pronger, I detest everything about that tosser
Grey Lemercier
Nov 2016
#116
Those lying douchebags I just saw on Fox Wall Street report with guest xx Ross, who lied his ass off
mahina
Nov 2016
#120
Pinebaggers, also known as Jim Jones Radicals. Proved to be white supremacist, Nazi scumbags.
grossproffit
Nov 2016
#133
Cornel West, Nina Turner, Rev. Darrel Scott, Rev. Mark Burns, into the basket! nt
Kahuna
Nov 2016
#194