Oh yeah that's a bigger and deeper question, about faithless electors generally, that hits right at the core of our constitutional order It's like asking what happens if the Queen decides to dismiss Parliament and say she's going to start ruling the country directly again
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That's the whole thing, the Electoral College is a constitutionally-mandated body and to "impeach" a member of the EC would require you following a process allowed by the Constitution itself; no such process was ever written into it Perils of relying on a 200-year-old document
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The Uniform Faithful Presidential Electors Act (adopted in a few states) has them, although it seems like there probably are procedures, since it's not unlikely that an elector dies between election day and convening their votes (https://www.uniformlaws.org/HigherLogic/System/DownloadDocumentFile.ashx?DocumentFileKey=c98d06fd-0be3-aff9-a9ab-af16d701c771&forceDialog=0 …)
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yes the state can replace electors with alternates, there was a recent SCOTUS decision on this. How thats done is left up to the states, since not all states have faithless elector laws.
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