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What has long lost its purpose but still is going?
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They aren’t barred by federal law
fourteen states void the votes of faithless elector and replace the elector
a larger number bar faithless electors but don't have any enforcement mechanismor one only have one that affects the elector (but not the vote), making faithless electors illegal if not impossible in a majority of states
aand I'll just point out right now that faithless elector laws don't do anything to preserve the power of the state that passed them, only to preserve the power of the two dominant political parties
The fact that electors physically exist as real people is still insane to me. If a state has winner takes all for their electoral votes, why does a group of random people have to then travel to DC to cast a vote. It's not 1800 when the outcome of a state's election needed to travel via horseback to the capitol.