In a comment to their post I wrote,
Conspicuous by its absence from your argument is the
perfectly valid constitutional point that the votes of the Electors cannot be
bound.
That is, there is no such thing as a faithless Elector.
The point of the EC was to give the power of choosing the
president and the VP to the Electors, whose votes can no more be constrained by
state legislators than can those of senators (originally chosen by those same
legislatures) or representatives.
In our republic, neither the people nor the states choose
the president and VP.
The Electors do.
And nobody else.
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