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by ty6853 399 days ago
The electoral college doesn't even have to vote for what their state wanted. They can go rogue, and possibly end up with criminal charges in a few states, but the vote still stands.

It has certainly happened before.

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No, correct, they do not.

Until an election is decided by rogue delegates, this is a frivolous point.

If it ever does happen, it makes the whole exercising of voting even more useless than it already is for states like CA, the vote truly means nothing as opposed to just being symbolically useless.

So, the EC absolutely matters, and it’ll matter right up until it doesn’t. At which point, who tf cares?