As election season heats up, the Supreme Court will hear two cases Wednesday that could shake up the Electoral College. At issue in the disputes is whether states can bind presidential electors to vote for the state's popular-vote winner.
At issue in the disputes is whether states can bind presidential electors to vote for the state's popular-vote winner. In 2016, 10 of the 538 presidential electors went rogue, attempting to vote for someone other than their pledged candidate. In all, 32 states and the District of Columbia have laws that are meant to discourage so-called faithless electors. But until 2016, no state had ever actually punished or removed an elector because of his or her vote.
It takes 270 votes to get a majority of the Electoral College. If there is a tie or nobody gets to the majority, then the election goes to the House of Representatives.It's never happened, but in theory a so-called faithless elector could swing the presidency.For instance, it would have taken only two Republican electors to have voted for someone besides George W. Bush in 2000 to potentially change the outcome.
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