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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by tmountain on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:09PM (#42924681)
Well, it would have been pretty damn nice to see it “activate” when a candidate with 34 felonies and two impeachments won the election, but that didn’t happen, so any supposed utility is immaterial now. I disagree with the entire concept in principle and do believe that the democratic vote should choose the candidate (even now). I just don’t think most folks actually know what they bargained for.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by bonzini on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:23PM (#42924836)
I think a bunch of states actually make it illegal for electors to be faithless.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by arcastroe on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:55PM (#42925155)
What does it mean for it to be illegal? If they cast faithless votes, would those votes stand, but then they open themselves up for prosecution? or would the votes not stand at all.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by Terr_ on Monday February 03, 2025 @07:53PM (#42925839)
Yeah, the one useful feature I ever thought it might have would be as a check against a crazy-unqualified demagogue, and since then I have seen it fail spectacularly, twice.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by IgorPartola on Monday February 03, 2025 @09:22PM (#42926835)
That was the original intent. It’s like a half way to a parliamentary system where the legislature elects a PM except here it is a separate one time use assembly.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by Terr_ on Monday February 03, 2025 @09:53PM (#42927139)
In fairness to the framers, it was originally supposed to increase in size along with the growth of the House of Representatives.
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