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MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW (EXCERPT) (click here)
168.47 Convening of presidential electors; time and place thereof; resignations; refusal or failure to vote; vacancies.
Sec. 47.
History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955 ;-- Am. 1971, Act 172, Eff. Mar. 30, 1972
Popular Name: Election Code
Brookings:
Jully 14, 2020By Barry Fadem
In July 6, 2020, (click here) the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that states have the power to require presidential electors to vote for their party’s candidate for president.
More specifically, the decision allows states to pass laws requiring presidential electors to cast their votes in a manner that faithfully reflects their commitment to vote for the person they promised to choose when they were nominated as an elector....
...The opinion goes on:
“The Constitution is barebones about electors. Article II includes only the instruction to each State to appoint, in whatever way it likes, [its presidential electors]. The Twelfth Amendment then tells electors to meet in their States, to vote for President and Vice President separately, and to transmit lists of all their votes to the President of the United States Senate for counting. … That is all.”.
Justice Thomas reached the same conclusion as the other justices, but he (and Justice Gorsuch) said that the 10th Amendment provided a basis for the decision. Thomas wrote that the “powers related to electors reside with States to the extent that the Constitution does not remove or restrict that power. Thus, to invalidate a state law, there must be ‘something in the Federal Constitution that deprives the [States of] the power to enact such a measure.’”...