Government,
Constitutional Law
Mar. 21, 2017
'Faithless electors' pay for deviating from voters' wishes
In perhaps the final action of the 2016 presidential election, three individuals in Washington state were ordered this month to pay fines of $1,000 each for their actions as "faithless electors.
Charles S. Doskow
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law
University of La Verne College of Law
Email: dosklaw@aol.com
Harvard Law School
Charles is a past president of the Inland Empire Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and in 2012 was awarded the chapter's Erwin Chemerinsky Defender of the Constitution award.
In perhaps the final action of the 2016 presidential election, three individuals in Washington state were ordered this month to pay fines of $1,000 each for their actions as "faithless electors." Each of them violated their duty to cast their votes as presidential electors in accordance with the votes of the citizens of the state, and voted instead for candidates of their own selection.
Nationwide, seven persons chosen to be members of the Electoral College took the extreme action of...
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