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The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President ...
The constitutionality of state pledge laws was confirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1952 in Ray v. Blair [12] in a 5–2 vote. The court ruled states have the right to require electors to pledge to vote for the candidate whom their party supports, and the right to remove potential electors who refuse to pledge prior to the election.
[25] [129] [30] Section 3 of the 20th Amendment provides that if a President-elect fails to qualify before Inauguration Day that the Vice President-elect acts as President until a President has qualified, and if neither a President-elect nor a Vice President-elect has qualified, Congress is delegated the power to declare who will act as ...
The new statute says the Vice President lacks the power "to determine, accept, reject, or otherwise adjudicate or resolve disputes over the proper list of electors, the validity of electors, or ...
The sitting vice president is expected to preside, but in several cases the president pro tempore of the Senate has chaired the proceedings. The vice president and the speaker of the House sit at the podium, with the vice president sitting to the right of the speaker of the House. Senate pages bring in two mahogany boxes containing each state's ...
There’s just one problem for a potential Vice President Newsom: the 12th Amendment. The amendment outlines how presidential electors in the Electoral College cast ballots for the presidential ...
Rick Hasen, an election law expert and professor at the UCLA School of Law, said it's the states that are empowered to contest their results and proffer slates of electors — not the vice president.
The majority opinion states that "The power of electors to vote comes from the State, and the elector has no personal right to that vote" to justify the fine. [ 6 ] [ 12 ] The lone dissent argues that the plenary power of the state to appoint electors may not be conflated with control over the electors once voting has begun, in line with ...