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If no electors flipped, the issue would go to the newly elected House.
As anyone who has watched Veep knows, if no candidate gets a majority in the Electoral College which none of them would if no electors voted the presidential pick would go to the House of Representatives, with each state delegation getting one vote to be doled out to any of the three presidential candidates who got the most electoral votes.
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But the National Archives and Records Administration, the federal agency that coordinates the work of the Electoral College, says, "No elector has ever been prosecuted for failing to vote as pledged".
"It is essential that all applications are returned to the electoral returning officer in accordance with the code of conduct to ensure that no elector is inadvertently denied their right to vote, or to vote using their preferred method," the commission said.
Bright could face a fine for his actions, but no elector has been penalized in the past.
Without that certificate, no Florida electors could vote in the electoral college ballot which is to take place that day.
If any change is made, it should be that a state's presidential winner gets the electoral votes, periodthat way, no maverick electors could vote for another candidate, as occasionally happens.
Should this happen -- and should no "faithless electors" emerge to switch a vote -- it would fall to the House of Representatives to determine the winner of the presidential race.
Otherwise, they said, Florida's six million voters might be shut out of the presidential election as Mr. Gore's challenge dragged on, approaching the Dec. 12 deadline beyond which a state's electors are no longer immunized from Congressional challenge.
There is in the Constitution absolutely no requirement that Electors vote for the person who carried their state.
7. In light of the intent in the Constitution, there is absolutely no requirement that electors vote for the person who won their state.
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