The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has ruled that Presidential Electors have a right to vote their conscience. In the case of Baca v. Colorado Department of State, the court said that Presidential Electors have a "right to cast a vote for President and Vice President with discretion." The court affirmed that once an elector is elected, the Constitution does not allow states to remove an elector from office or nullify his votes. It also stated that individual states do not have the authority to hold any elector to a pledge as to how they are going to vote.
A Conscious Conservative believes that this is a move forward In assuring that Presidential Electors fulfill their duty of voting for the best candidate, not for who the political elite orders. However, work must still be done. In most states, Presidential Electors are not independently chosen but are hand picked political lackeys. Thank you to the brave Plaintiffs in this case, Michael Baca, Polly Baca and Polly Nemanich.
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