POTUS/General Election Thread 2020 + Aftermath

[spmetla]

What is the rationale behind faithless electors, and has it happened in the past and why? If the vote count in the electoral college is just a formality, why can't they be virtual votes that are just tallied without an need for flesh and blood electors physically voting? It's not like a Parliamentary system where there is a regular need to prove authority with lawmaking votes (as that part is played by your Houses).

The reasons why are because the system is from back horse transport days with no mass media, in a nation even as large as the 13 colonies with the poor roads and effects of weather from November to January the many steps of the electoral process are to help accommodate that.

Changing things in the US Constitution require Constitutional Amendments which require strong majorities in either Congress or the State Legislatures to enact. With our ever increasing deadlock and failure to compromise even updating things that both sides agree on is very difficult.

As for the history, here's just the 2016 ones:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithl...hless_electors