Originally published on November 6th, 2020
Friday, November 6, 2020
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Fifteen States Allow Faithless Electors to Cast Protest Votes Without Limitation or Punishment
If Donald Trump wins Wisconsin and Michigan again in 2020 - and Arizona and Nevada go for Biden - then Biden will win the Electoral College 270 to 268. Proportional allocation in Nebraska and Maine, and/or protest votes in the Electoral College, could make the difference, and potentially produce a tie, or else stop both Trump and Biden from receiving the 270 electoral votes necessary to win.
To learn about the results out of Nebraska and Maine, read the following article (if you can afford it):
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-maine-house-district-2.html
Watch the following Instagram videos - posted on November 5th, 2020 - to learn about why these faithless electors may come into play.
The map below shows which states allow electors in the Electoral College to cast protest votes, without being either threatened with fines or punishment, or being required to vote according to how the majority voted in the given state.
If any faithless electors show up in the Electoral College, they will most likely come from one of the states marked as red in the map below. If they come from other states, fines and legal challenges would almost certainly result.
This information is accurate as of November 2020.
Read my explanation of how the president is elected, and how the Electoral College and the 12th Amendment work, at the following link:
http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2020/07/states-where-libertarian-party-and.html
http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2020/07/states-where-libertarian-party-and.html
Sources:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector#/media/File:Faithless_elector_states.svg
- http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/the-electoral-college.aspx#faithless
- http://apnews.com/article/a398c3e7c8d2c4a1b9ad498ed5f86ed7
Written and Published on November 5th, 2020