During oral arguments in a case concerning the Electoral College on Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas proposed that electors could go against the will of voters by choosing to vote for J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional hobbit character Frodo Baggins.
character Frodo Baggins during oral arguments concerning the Electoral College on Wednesday.
"The elector, who had promised to vote for the winning candidate, could suddenly say 'you know, I'm going to vote for Frodo Baggins. I really like Frodo Baggins,'" said Thomas."And you're saying, under your system, you can't do anything about that." "Your honor, I think there is something to be done, because that would be the vote for a non-person, no matter how big a fan many people are of Frodo Baggins," Harrow said."That said, I do think the important point is that the framers hashed out these competing concerns, they hashed it out in Philadelphia in 1787."
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