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bluestarone

(16,872 posts) Mon Jul 22, 2019, 08:46 PM Jul 2019

Having bad thoughts here about our Electoral voters process.

The way i understand this is each state informs these people who to vote for. BUT they could vote ANYWAY they choose, is this correct? If so, this could be a BIG problem with no answer to. BARR will probably STOP any investigation. Anybody else feel this way?

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Having bad thoughts here about our Electoral voters process. (Original Post) bluestarone Jul 2019 OP

Faithless electors are rare. MarvinGardens Jul 2019 #1

It's not that each state informs these people who to vote for. it's that "these preople" are chosen PoliticAverse Jul 2019 #2

They are selected by party, the main qualification being loyalty unblock Jul 2019 #3

MarvinGardens

(779 posts)

1. Faithless electors are rare.

Reply to bluestarone (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 08:57 PM

Jul 2019

They are chosen by the winning candidate's state party. Though, I was hoping for a few more of Trump's electors to be faithless.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

2. It's not that each state informs these people who to vote for. it's that "these preople" are chosen

Reply to bluestarone (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 08:58 PM

Jul 2019

based on the vote. On ballots you can usually see that you are voting for "electors for (candidate name)".

So people voting for (candidate name) are choosing electors that have pledged to support (candidate name).

Different electors get chosen based on who got the most votes.

unblock

(52,126 posts)

3. They are selected by party, the main qualification being loyalty

Reply to bluestarone (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 09:53 PM

Jul 2019

This faithless electors are not common at all.

Some states even legally require electors to vote as advertised, at least on the first ballot.

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