No. There were two republican faithless electors and they went for Ron Paul and John Kasich.
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but this wouldnât invalidate the faithless electorâs vote
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 today, upholding the authority of states to bind presidential electors to the stateâs popular vote when casting their Electoral College ballots.
Todayâs ruling effectively uphold the constitutionality of Arizona law, which prescribes for the vote of the elector to be cancelled and replaced if they fail to vote as pledged based upon the stateâs popular vote.
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he obviously doesnât have $3.6b
yeah, that seems pretty wild, I donât see how a state law could âinvalidateâ the electorâs vote once cast, but three votes in 2016 were in fact invalidated.
MI+PA = 36
Also thereâs a huge difference between casting a âprotestâ vote as an elector when your vote doesnât acutally matter, and actually throwing your support to another candidate knowing you are electing a candidate from the opposite party against the will of the voters. The former happens all the latter has never happened.
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Youâre picturing the electoral college wrong. They donât meet all in one place and âcastâ their votes. The votes are sent in from each state. The state can decide not to forward them and select new electors under various state laws.
We have the dumbest system of elections imaginable.
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Isnt he the richest man in the world? His net worth 2 years ago was over $200 billion.
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at first i thought you meant trmp, but now i see you meant putin. and no, he certainly doesnât have that in liquid form at all, and heâs not going to blow it on trmp. thatâs just throwing good laundered money after bad. also with that much attention and scrutiny why reveal potentially several of your stashes by writing 36 checks. putin does prop up other dictators with money, but he usually redirects russian govât budget money for that.
tangentially, one if putinâs wallets just died of covid, raldugin from the panama papers. he was keeping like $2.5b by trading ancient violins at the time, but at least some of it must have been in hedge funds etc. so it could certainly be at least $3.6b by now.
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The Brown? Of the forests?
Hard to put a net worth on a guy who effectively has the spending power of a major country.
https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1329905687867117572?s=20
https://twitter.com/jacobgershman/status/1329919784541163520?s=20
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No it doesnât get messy. The electors are party insiders that will never vote for Trump.
source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/11/20/joe-biden-trump-transition-live-updates/
Respect.
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I took a nap and missed the last Georgia certification. I hope thereâs another one soon.
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https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1329878933043515392
Everyone, make sure to donate to Joe Bidenâs transition fund. Never mind that he has over 100 billionaire donors and hundreds of millions of dollars in unspent cash left, if you arenât a working class stiff donating 20 bucks to this fund, you are helping Trump.
Please help broke war criminal Joseph Biden raise money. Thank you
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I didnât say it WOULD happen (and I donât think it will). The question was asked, hypothetically, what would happen if it did. And the answer is a lot of court battles and application of different state laws, some of which say the vote of the faithless elector is respected, and some that say that it can be disregarded.