Yeah the definition of a pledged elector is you're a party operative -- officially an elected official of the party, you "run for election" on the actual ballot regular people get in November -- and you sign a contract to vote for who the party tells you to
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Like, the electors could all meet in a room and just randomly decide they want Kanye West to be the President, and they could theoretically do it, and maybe they'd all lose their houses and even go to prison afterwards, but constitutionally we'd still have President Kanye West
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That's kind of fucked up I guess it matters what the states mean that say you are "required" to take the faithless vote back really mean by "required" What if you just put your hands behind your back and say you're absolutely not changing it
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Right, my question is whether the states are allowed or required to apply those fines or whatever in the event that the party tells them to vote for someone else and *either* they do vote for the substitute nominee *or* they vote for Trump. Which vote is considered faithless?
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Oh, the law just says they have to honor the pledge they made with the party From a legal standpoint, the state government runs the election, and is the "service provider" by distributing and counting the ballots etc while the "clients" are the political parties
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