Supreme Court says states can bind Electoral College voters

The Supreme Court said that states can bind members of the electoral college who fail to fulfill a pledge to vote for a state's popular vote winner in presidential elections. By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter

(CNN) -- The Supreme Court said that states can bind members of the electoral college who fail to fulfill a pledge to vote for a state's popular vote winner in presidential elections.

The case comes as the election season is heating up and the Electoral College will once again be front and center in an increasingly polarized and volatile political atmosphere.

In 2016, 10 of the 538 presidential electors went rogue, attempting to vote for someone other than their pledged candidate. In all, 32 states and the District of Columbia have laws that are meant to discourage faithless electors. But until 2016, no state had ever actually punished or removed an elector because of his or her vote.

The vote count was 9-0.

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