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- Aug 26, 2018
I mentioned it many pages back but the electors are required by law to meet on December 14th to cast their votes for the Presidency, Bush v Gore was decided on December 12th.
The Florida electors were nominated by the Florida Legislature too, and the SCOTUS ruled that was OK because there was no time for the recounts required to guarantee a fair election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore#Remedy_2
The Court ruled 5–4 that no constitutionally valid recount could be completed by a December 12 "safe harbor" deadline. The Court asserted that "the Supreme Court of Florida has said that the legislature intended the State's electors to 'participat[e] fully in the federal electoral process,' as provided in 3 U.S.C. § 5." The Court therefore effectively ended the proposed recount, because "the Florida Legislature intended to obtain the safe-harbor benefits of 3 U.S.C. §5."