On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 15:32:32 -0500, Califbill
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On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 12:01:03 -0500, Califbill
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On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 12:32:55 -0400, Keyser Söze
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Read the 12th amendment and get back to us. The duties and procedures of
the EC were changed.

How electors are selected did not change and there is still nothing
that forces the electors to vote for the person they were supposed to.
Plenty of elections have at least one rogue elector. Most recently was
2004 where one idiot from Minnesota voted for Edwards as president and
vice president. In 1988 a West Virginia democrat voted for Bentsen for
president and Dukakis for VP. In 76 Reagan got a vote and he wasn't
even running.


California only requires the electors to vote for their pledge delegate on
the first two votes. After that they can vote for whomever.

Are you talking about convention delegates? EC electors only get one
swing at it, then it goes to the house if nobody has 270.


I bad. Yes.

All of this arcane stuff does seem to blur together when you actually
look at it too long. The only thing you really come away with is how
little most people's votes actually count. It usually comes down to a
few swing states because the rest of them are so partisan, one way or
the other, that the average guy is lost in the landslide.