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.
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.
How many faithless electoral have ever happened in history?
Dozens. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector
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:
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.
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.