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There are at least eight cases in which judges have ruled that candidates are disqualified from running. Two of those involved disqualified PRESIDENTIAL candidates.

Sorry for taking a while to reply, I was out for Christmas.

Article II, Section 1 says that the states can appoint their delegates to the Electoral College in whatever way they want.

Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.

But on what constitutional basis could the vote of these electors be revoked once cast?

I can see how the states could punish officials who mismanaged the process of selecting the electors or punish electors who did not vote as "directed". I just don't see how the electors votes could be changed once the electors have been certified and their votes cast.

Also, the Constitution makes no mention of the Supreme Court having any role in managing the Electoral College or approving of it's results.

Do you have any cases or legal research that address either of these points?

But on what constitutional basis could the vote of these electors be revoked once cast?
***The 20th Amendment. It clearly subordinates electoral and public votes to the eligibility of the president elect.

20th Amendment Sct3: “if the President elect shall have failed to qualify”
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12/09/2008 9:59:02 AM PST · by Kevmo · 79 replies · 1,740+ views

Electoral College votes cannot be “redirected.” However, they can be freed from casting an illegal vote. As I have posted at least eight times now, the election in which Horace Greeley ran, but died between election day and the meeting of the Electoral College, freed his Electors to vote as they chose.

The eight cases I referenced, exist and say what I cite them for.

I am hoping to find lawyers who know how to research the law. I am dispairing of finding some.

John / Billybob