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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
Isn't there a court ruling (or two?) that have upheld at least the general principle?
I could almost swear I saw something along those lines in the past week or so (related to the couple of stray delegates now allocated by congressional district or whatever it is).
Granted, precedent can be overturned & what not, but I think at the moment at least they're enforceable (unless I misread something).
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Kinda. SCOTUS precedent holds that the states can require fealty pledges from their prospective electors (and presumably thus that penalties for breaking that pledge are legal) but it's still up to Congress whether to accept the ballot of the elector.
Which is to say, there might be a fine involved if an elector were to switch, but the real enforcement mechanism would be Congress saying (as it almost assuredly would) "No, we're not going to accept the ballot from the WI elector who wishes to vote for Hillary Clinton, instead."