Faithless Electors

Date:

Dec. 9, 2019

Time:

Location:

Mercato Restaurant, 111 Market St. NE
Olympia , WA

This seminar will cover:

  • In 2016, four of Washington's Presidential electors voted for people other than their party's nominee.
  • The Secretary of State fined them.
  • They had administrative hearings contesting the fine.
  • Their fines were affirmed through the Washington Supreme Court.
  • Similarly situated faithless electors in Colorado appealed to federal court, where the 10th Circuit held they could not be penalized for their faithlessness under the U.S. Constitution.
  • The cases are headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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