• paultimate14@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Out of the tens of thousands of electors in history, there’s been just over a hundred faithless electors.

    And, to quote from your link:

    They have never swung an election

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      9 months ago

      They have never swung an election

      And the source for that comment is a Newsweek article by Alexandra Hutzler that has no cited sources. I guess this is why we don’t use Wikipedia in school.

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        9 months ago

        Fair enough, I was just rolling with what you brought.

        Does CNN work better? Or CBS?

        I think I would agree with you on a lot: faithless electors should be legislated out of existence and the electoral college sucks. Where I disagree is that I don’t think this is significant enough to discourage voting. Faithless Electors are more of a trivia question than anything meaningful to American politics.