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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce

I'm bringing this up again. I would like an answer to this, if anyone has a clue. Is this a real possibility?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector

If I'm doing the math right (which I may not be) then there are 131 potential electors pledged to Biden that may vote however they darn well please.

If Biden finishes with 270 pledged votes, and just one of those is faithless (assuming no Trump pledges vote Biden) then there is a contingency election in the House of Representatives whereby every state gets 1 vote. However is first past the post of the top 3 electoral college vote getters becomes President of the United States of America.

This means, a Californian elector could vote Colin Powell as President, assuming no other faithless electors, then have the House of Representatives elect Colin Powell as President even though no one voted for him in the general election, and he received only 1 electoral college vote.

EDIT: The site I was on only listed states that have laws against faithless electors. Some states make being a faithless elector illegal but still count the vote as cast, and may not have any penalty, which raises the question why even pass a law if it doesn't change anything?