Once a state appoints an elector, the court said, its power over that elector ends.
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Each elector in California represents slightly more than 705,000 people, while each elector in Arizona represents slightly more than 611,000 people.
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What percentage of the popular vote does one need to get a presidential elector in a three-elector state, for example?
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A fourth Democratic elector in Washington voted for Faith Spotted Eagle, and a Democratic elector in Hawaii voted for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
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Before this election, the last faithless elector came in 2004, when an elector in Minnesota voted for John Edwards for both president and vice-president.
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No elector has been prosecuted for doing so, but then again, almost every elector has voted with his or her state's results in the past.
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"It's not clear that an actual vote by an actual elector can be, as it were, clawed back by a state and the replacement elector vote put in the stead of the other elector," said James Rogers, associate professor of political science at Texas A&M University.
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We've forgotten about the potential "faithless elector" from Charleston in 2004, when Republican Mayor Richie Robb, an elector, said he would not vote for his party's nominee.
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Blair, involved potential Alabama elector Edmund Blair, who refused to pledge his support for the Democratic Party's nominees for president and vice president before being certified as an elector.
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Colorado's law, as in many of the 18083 other states with elector binding statutes, authorizes election officials to remove any elector who votes against the candidate of his or her party.
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Had the country used an electoral college in the 2016 election, an elector from California would have represented roughly 712,000 people, while an elector from Wyoming would have represented just 195,000 people.
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A Minnesota elector was replaced as well and in Maine, elector David Bright initially cast a vote for Bernie Sanders but recast it for Clinton after he was deemed out of order.
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An elector named Micheal [sic] Baca refused to be intimidated.
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You are voting for an elector pledged to that person.
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In Colorado, where a state law requires electors to cast their ballots for the winner of the state's popular vote, elector Michael Baca tried to vote for Kasich - but was replaced with another elector.
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Another Republican elector from Texas, Art Sisneros, resigned in late November.
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This means each elector in Rhode Island represents approximately 352,000 people.
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No faithless elector has ever changed the outcome of an election.
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Each elector cast two votes, one for someone from another state.
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One other Texas elector also abandoned Trump in the final vote.
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One elector had cast his vote for then Ohio Republican Gov.
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So an elector who would vote for Clinton took his place.
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Bill Clinton, for instance, is a New York elector this year.
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Last week, Netanyahu urged his party's Likud supporters to download the Elector app as a powerful tool to boost voter turnout on election day, repeating "Elector!" as the app was shown on a big screen behind him.
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The future is what I call the Synthetic eMotional Intelligence Learning Elector.
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Clay Pell, a Democratic elector from Rhode Island, will also weigh in.
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A Denver judge replaced Baca with an alternate elector who backed Clinton.
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Has an elector ever 'gone rogue' or broken his or her promise?
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One of those electors is Chris Suprun, a Republican elector from Texas.
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So a defection by even one more Republican elector would make history.
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Update (8 pm): Galloway reports that Vu has resigned as an elector.
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The sole Supreme Court case addressing elector freedoms, 1952's Ray v.
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Another "faithless" elector announced he wouldn't cast his electoral vote on Dec.
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There, one elector had cast his vote for then Ohio Republican Gov.
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A fourth Democratic elector in Washington State voted for Faith Spotted Eagle, a Native American tribal leader and prominent opponent of the Keystone XL pipeline, and a Democratic elector in Hawaii voted for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
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Their intentions draw heavily from Hamilton's approach to the role of the elector.
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This election was the first since 1872 with more than one faithless elector.
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Whether to ratify or to rebel becomes the province of the individual elector.
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Within 24 hours, he resigned his position, but concerns over elector faithfulness remain.
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Elector is followed by Daphne and Elementary, who both have 50% race win.
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Only one GOP elector has publicly said he will not vote for Trump.
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He was later removed and replaced with another elector who voted for Clinton.
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Baca involves a Colorado elector who attempted to vote for then-Ohio Gov.
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The last time an elector didn't vote for the candidate their state chose was in 2004, when an anonymous elector in Minnesota was supposed to vote for Democratic candidate John Kerry but voted for his VP running mate, John Edwards.
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Still, one elector, Henry Irwin, a Republican from Oklahoma, cast his vote for Byrd.
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"Hillary's got a great campaign going," said Sharon Geise, an elector from Mesa, Ariz.
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Voters choose among candidates for presidential elector every four years in a November vote.
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There's one presidential elector for every 189,433 of them, according to that 63 apportionment.
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In recent years, most states have attempted to foreclose the possibility of elector defections.
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The app's history shows that Elector has been available for at least nine months.
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One Republican elector, Chris Suprun of Texas, has publicly declared his opposition to Trump.
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A Democratic elector in Minnesota has become the first "faithless elector" of Monday's nationwide Electoral College vote after refusing to vote for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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Nemanich asked a state official what would happen if an elector didn't vote in favor of Clinton and was told such an elector would be subject to a Colorado law that requires electors to vote for the ticket that received the most votes.
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And each elector must sign six copies certifying their votes for president and vice president.
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At least one Democrat elector flatly stated that he is not voting for Hillary Clinton.
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"The letters are actually quite sad," said Lee Green, a Republican elector from North Carolina.
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Among the punishments are potential fines or the threat of being replaced with another elector.
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To understand the Hamilton elector, we need to know the context for Hamilton's Electoral College.
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Only one GOP elector, Chris Suprun from Texas, has vowed not to vote for Trump.
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No elector had ever been prosecuted or replaced for a faithless vote — until this year.
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The elector group has also been in contact with the Clinton camp, according to Politico.
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Clair Engle (D-Calif.) decades ago, served as a federal elector in 2000 and 2008.
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In a twist, one faithless elector in West Virginia voted for Dukakis' running mate, Sen.
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There's an elector for every member of the House of Representatives (435) and Senate (100).
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The fact that an elector can vote her conscience does not necessarily mean she should.
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All they needed, the elector said, was a signal from Clinton or her top allies.
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They Should Choose Clinton (Lawrence Lessig in The Washington Post)• Meet the 'Hamilton Electors' Hoping for an Electoral College Revolt (The Atlantic)• Teen Becomes Seventh 'Faithless Elector' to Protest Trump as President-Elect (The Guardian)• Texas Elector Who Criticized Trump Says He's Resigning (Politico) 20163.
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Colorado's secretary of State has referred a "faithless" elector to the state attorney general for investigation.
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This is especially the case given how the office of presidential elector has evolved over time.
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But that 55 electors equals one elector per 678,945 Californians, according to the Green Papers data.
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Another elector, David Bright, wrote on Facebook on Monday that he would vote for Mr. Sanders.
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That year had only one faithless elector, a Democrat protesting Washington, DC's lack of congressional representation.
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The faithless elector, Michael Baca, crossed out Clinton's name on his ballot to write in Kasich.
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In Colorado, an elector who also attempted to defect from Clinton and select Ohio Republican Gov.
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When one elector pledged to Adams changed his mind and voted for Jefferson, Federalists were outraged.
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The state removed this elector from office and replaced him with someone who voted for Clinton.
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Only one Republican elector, Chris Suprun of Texas, has publicly said he won't vote for Trump.
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For instance, Trump's win in Alaska meant the Republican Party's nominated elector slate there — former Gov.
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Even those who were able to vote rarely saw their preferences reflected by a single elector.
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From immigrant to elector: 'Living the American Dream' But mass defections of electors was always extremely unlikely.
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The real issue is whether a state could force an elector to comply with the popular vote.
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In the sketch, McKinnon's Clinton propositions an elector in hopes of swaying her vote away from Trump.
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The group claims to have convinced one Republican elector to abandon Trump but won't name the person.
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The most recent instance of a "faithless elector" was in 2004, according to the Congressional Research Service.
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The Elector of Saxony, John the Steadfast, ordered the famous professor and reformer, Martin Luther, to leave.
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"Even if it could work that way, the original elector would have a legal claim," Rogers said.
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At least one elector has said he will buck his party and not vote for Mr. Trump.
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Colorado replaced Micheal Baca with another elector who voted for Clinton before he could cast his vote.
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The 9/11 first responder hails from one of the 19 states without an elector binding law.
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The fourth elector, Robert Satiacum, cast his ballot for Faith Spotted Eagle, a Native American environmental activist.
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He became Presidential Elector, United States Marshal, United States Recorder, United States diplomat, and accumulated some wealth.
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But no elector has ever been prosecuted for failing to vote as pledged, according to the National Archives.
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At least one elector in the 2000 election received a death threat, and many others received computer viruses.
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According to the Founder's vision, then, an elector has every right to be "faithless" and vote their conscience.
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I ran for elector in order to gain an inside perspective on such a distinctly American historical institution.
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In late November, a Republican elector, who concluded he could not in good conscience vote for Trump, resigned.
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Why he moved to London: His patron, George, the elector of Hanover, was heir to the British throne.
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But one elector, William Plumer of New Hampshire, decided to vote for his friend John Quincy Adams instead.
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Occasionally, an elector changes his or her mind between the November election and the formal vote in December.
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Even the term "faithless" is revealing: What faith is an elector who votes his or her conscience breaking?
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Indeed, it seems fitting that the collection was started by someone whose title was the Elector of Saxony.
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Thanks to the Republican elector Christopher Suprun of Texas, we have now seen what such fidelity looks like.
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Another Texas elector voted for Ron Paul, the former Texas congressman who ran unsuccessfully for president several times.
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"I have no problem casting my vote for Mitt Romney," the Democratic elector, who requested anonymity, told POLITICO.
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Thirty states have laws that limit elector freedom to ensure they follow the popular vote in their state.
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The College is a blend of the pure democracy of the U.S. House, with one elector per U.S. representative, each of whom represents about 6900,2628 Americans today, and our federal system, with one elector for each of the two U.S. senators from each state (plus three for the District of Columbia).
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In Minnesota, one elector was disqualified after declaring he would vote for someone other than his state's winner, Clinton.
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A date decades in the making Being an elector is one of Ash Khare's crowning achievements as an American.
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However, one Republican elector from Texas has spoken out and said he will not vote for the President-elect.
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That tantalising fact makes it much more likely that future close elections will be an exercise in elector-courting.
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Virtually every other Republican elector The Hill has contacted has said they will vote enthusiastically for the president-elect.
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Another, Texan Republican Christopher Suprun, announced he would be a "faithless" elector, and that other Republicans would join him.
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A GOP elector is calling on President Obama to tell people to stop trying to intimidate Electoral College voters.
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Any defection by an elector would, essentially, be a random act that could that could hold our system hostage.
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Less than a decade after the Constitution was drafted, the framers' idea of an independent elector was effectively kaput.
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Politico added it could find only one GOP elector on record considering a break with Trump, his party's nominee.
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Christopher Suprun, a Republican elector from Texas who voted for John Kasich, said he received death threats as well.
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And in at least the past century there was never more than one faithless elector in any given year.
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There was also one faithless elector in each of the following elections: 29, 21, 215, 22016, 22012, 2016, and 225.
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Minnesota's Republican Party last week called the lawsuit "frivolous" and said their elector selection complied with state and party rules.
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Another poll released on Friday, by the Elector Research Group, showed support for Merkel's conservative bloc steady at 37 percent.
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All nine of the state's electors eventually cast a vote for the Democratic nominee after the rogue elector was replaced.
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"Secretary Williams impermissibly interfered with Mr. Baca's exercise of his right to vote as a presidential elector," the court said.
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A second elector from Washington state, Bret Chiafalo, is saying that he may or may not follow his state's results.
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The Colorado lawsuit was brought by another elector who was removed after also declining to cast a vote for Clinton.
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A presidential elector leading a historic protest against the Electoral College system is planning to take his fight to court.
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The collection was founded in the 18th century by August the Strong, Elector of Saxony and later King of Poland.
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A Republican elector from Texas announced Monday that he would refuse to cast his Electoral College vote for Donald Trump.
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It was assumed at the time to be a mistake on the part of the elector - not that it mattered much.
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If an elector wants to go rogue and vote for a different presidential candidate, there's really nothing stopping him or her.
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The emergence of party tickets transformed the office of elector from one of independence to one of servitude to the party.
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The state of Washington voted for Ford, but a Republican elector named Mike Padden voted instead for Ronald Reagan for president.
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If the elector does not vote for their party candidate they are subject to a civil penalty of up to $1,000.
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If we look at the winning percentage, the Queen's most successful horse is Elector, who has a 100% race win record.
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Every Republican elector should join Democratic electors in forcefully seeking a full intelligence briefing about Russian covert action against our elections.
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It produces unnecessary uncertainty in an already maligned process and runs counter to the expectations of the office of presidential elector.
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Sisneros will be replaced with an alternate elector who will vote for Trump when the Texas electors convene on December 19.
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One elector, Christopher Suprun of Texas, has already said that he would like to vote for John Kasich or another alternative.
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In 2004, an elector from Minnesota who was supposed to vote for John Kerry for president instead voted for John Edwards.
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And in Colorado, at least one elector unsuccessfully did so after casting a vote for Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton.
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And as Rogers pointed out, even if they could, it's not clear they can then change the vote the elector cast.
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Normally, the Electoral College vote is a formality, and every elector votes according to the winner of their state's popular vote.
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Colorado Democratic elector Micheal Baca, leader of an effort to turn the Electoral College against Trump, is also on the list.
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First some background: Micheal Baca was a Democratic elector in Colorado in 2016, pledged to Hillary Clinton, who won the state.
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First some background: Micheal Baca was a Democratic elector in Colorado in 2016, pledged to Hillary Clinton, who won the state.
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A spokeswoman for the Colorado Secretary of State's office, however, notes the question of whether an elector can be removed was not part of the specific case heard by the federal court so it has been advised to go by the state law which says an elector who refuses to vote for the popular vote winner may be removed.
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Republican Texas elector Christopher Suprun, technically bound to vote for Trump, has said he will be casting his vote for another candidate.
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Some insiders predict that she has a hope that her horse Elector may run for her in the prestigious Derby next June.
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Or that time in 1988 when a West Virginia elector voted for Lloyd Bentsen for President and Michael Dukakis for Vice-President.
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She also offers to pay off any fines incurred on the elector of she were to vote for someone other than Trump.
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The elector from the state's Second Congressional District is expected to support Mr. Trump, who won the most votes in that district.
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Still, as I've been writing for weeks, an outcome-changing elector revolt was incredibly unlikely to happen this year, for several reasons.
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Clinton, a New York elector this year, cast a vote for his wife, the winner of the popular election in the state.
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The campaign for the election of 1800, in fact, included several battles to determine whether legislatures or referendums would determine elector selection.
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One such prince, Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, "kidnapped" Luther after his trial to keep him safe from his would-be arrestors.
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Texas' Chris Suprun, an emergency responder who has been a vocal critic of Trump, is the only Republican elector to sign on.
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ERICH REIMERCHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. The writer was a Virginia elector in 2016 and served as a county co-chairman for the Trump campaign.
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Politico, citing GOP sources, reported that a Republican whip operation found only one elector, Chris Suprun of Texas, would vote against Trump.
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Others described the pressure as harassment and intimidation, noting that anti-Trump protesters had planned to have a presence outside elector meetings.
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If thought to substantially impact the election, elector freedom could once again end up in the high court, currently split 4-4.
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In this case, however, Clinton uses her giant note cards to send a message to an elector who is set to vote soon.
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One Republican elector in Texas has publicly said he will not vote for Trump, although his state voted overwhelmingly for the GOP candidate.
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It was likely a mistake, but because Minnesota had a secret ballot, it remains a mystery as to which elector did the deed.
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However, I suspect attempts to curtail elector independence will likely be the biggest operational change to the Electoral College by the 2020 election.
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One Maine elector expressed interest in going rogue by voting for Sanders instead, but was told he could not and voted for Clinton.
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At this point, there are only two, but if even a single elector votes for an alternative candidate, that candidate might be considered.
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Any "faithless elector" would also have to grapple with their own state's laws, which sometimes forbid electors from choosing their own presidential picks.
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Republican state party chairs and local officials have said they expect nearly every GOP elector to vote for Trump, however, The Hill reported.
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One final, final note: Sessions was a Richard M. Nixon elector in the year 1972 at the tender age of 25 years old.
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An elector in both Maine and Minnesota attempted to cast a ballot for Bernie Sanders, who unsuccessfully challenged Clinton in the Democratic primary.
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One Democratic elector from Colorado, Michael Baca, is also entreating his fellow electors to defect from their pledges and to vote for Clinton.
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So when Donald Trump won the state of Alaska, the practical effect was that the Republican Party's nominated elector slate there — former Gov.
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In both cases, the justices will explore whether a state can bind a presidential elector to vote for the state's popular vote winner.
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But Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a 18003 elector for Bush, even appeared on Fox News to complain about constant calls to his office.
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One Republican elector has said he will not support Donald Trump, and others have resigned because they were unwilling to vote for him.
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In addition to Christine Pelosi — a California elector — it includes a signature from one former members of Congress: New Hampshire's Carol Shea-Porter.
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If an elector has chosen to vote against state results, that is the moment when lawmakers can petition to throw that vote out.
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Ron Paul (R-Texas) and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had at least one elector who would like to see them run.
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" Clinton then reveals a long list of reasons Trump shouldn't be in the White House, encouraging the elector to vote for "literally anyone else.
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So far only one Republican elector, Christopher Suprun of Texas, has publicly declared he would vote for an alternative GOP candidate instead of Trump.
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Although rare, the most recent so-called faithless elector cast a blank ballot in 22016, according to an official U.S. House of Representatives site.
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Even in the elector sector, when you look at people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Stacey Abrams, we're seeing women speak truth to power.
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I have resigned as the volunteer campaign chair in Mahoning County and as an elector to the Electoral College to avoid any unnecessary distractions.
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In most of these states, the move to punish faithless electors was made immediately after the occurrence of a rogue elector in that state.
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But states that now conceal the names of elector-candidates on the official ballot will face pressure to disclose that information to the voters.
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Having studied presidential electors for over a decade, I suspect Vu is not the only elector feeling unease about his or her presidential ticket.
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Clinton, her top advisers and former President Bill Clinton, who's an elector for New York, have remained silent on the various Electoral College machinations.
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In Colorado, one elector, Micheal Baca, was replaced and his vote canceled when he sought to vote for Republican John Kasich, Ohio's former governor.
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But Ray also left unanswered the question of what happens if an elector violates this pledge after they are appointed to the Electoral College.
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In an apparent act of protest, one elector drew a cross on the ballot with check marks, and another wrote an obscenity on it.
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Additionally, any faithless votes would be considered as a resignation of the office, the vote would be vacated, and the elector would be immediately replaced.
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"I don't think I will be the only one voting for someone other than Donald Trump who is carrying a Republican elector ticket," he said.
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Through all the clamor, we are only likely to see one significant change to the institution by the 28500 election — the suppression of elector independence.
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Most candidates for presidential elector announce in advance the presidential ticket they will vote for, and the overwhelming majority of electors stick to their pledges.
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Only one Republican elector, Christopher Suprun of Texas, publicly pledged not to vote for Trump despite his state heavily favoring the president-elect last month.
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There's no evidence of a widespread number of Republican defections — just one Republican elector from Texas has gone public with plans to break from Trump.
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Andrew M. Cuomo, also an elector, praised him as "always kind, always generous" in front of a partisan Democratic crowd in a solidly blue state.
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If an elector were to cast his or her vote, it's not at all clear that a state could then move to nullify that vote.
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So if there are large-scale elector defections from Trump, Congress may well simply refuse to recognize them, saying they're carrying out the voters' will.
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In all, there were 10 faithless electors in 2016, including a fourth in Washington, a Democratic elector in Hawaii and two Republican electors in Texas.
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JACLYN VORENKAMP Palisades, N.Y. To the Editor: It is somewhat heartening that a Republican presidential elector acknowledges what a looming disaster a Trump presidency is.
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He received the title of Court Composer from the Elector of Saxony and, on a visit to Berlin, astonished Frederick the Great with his improvisations.
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It may not be the usual rubber stamp: At least one elector has said he will buck his party and not vote for Mr. Trump.
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One Republican elector has said that he will not vote for Mr. Trump, but a revolt big enough to alter the outcome is deeply unlikely.
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"I have the right to vote for a write-in candidate in the electoral college," Baoky Vu, an elector, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Wednesday.
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Op-Ed Contributor DALLAS — I am a Republican presidential elector, one of the 538 people asked to choose officially the president of the United States.
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In Hawaii, Democratic elector David Mulinx voted for Bernie Sanders instead of Clinton, claiming that Clinton wasn't qualified, according to LA Times reporter Mike Memoli.
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A Republican presidential elector from Texas says he won't be the only Republican elector who won't vote for President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, ABC News reported.
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Critics would further charge that maintaining elector independence today exposes the presidential selection process to the very "cabal, intrigue, and corruption" it was designed to prevent.
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Under the original rules, there is only one Electoral College vote, in which each elector gets two ballots, and the second-place winner becomes vice president.
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As a 2016 Presidential Elector, I am forever grateful to our state Party and our Chairman for bestowing this once-in-a-lifetime honor on me.
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There is simply no way to translate over 100 million popular votes into 538 electoral votes without some degree of rounding off to the nearest elector.
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Levi Guerra is a Democrat elector from Washington state, who will be casting her vote for an alternative Republican candidate in the December 19 Electoral College.
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Democrats would need to sway 37 electors to abandon Trump, and so far, only one GOP elector has publicly announced his intent to defect from Trump.
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And the state does not possess countervailing authority to remove an elector and to cancel his vote in response to the exercise of that Constitutional right.
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Colorado's then-Secretary of State Wayne Williams "impermissibly interfered with Mr. Baca's exercise of his right to vote as a presidential elector," the appeals court wrote.
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Most states currently require some kind of a pledge from an elector to vote for the party's candidate who won the popular vote in the state.
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To the Editor: Christopher Suprun needs to relinquish his status as a Texas elector immediately if he is not already in the process of being replaced.
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On Monday, Christopher Suprun, an elector from Texas, became the first Republican to say publicly that he won't vote for Mr. Trump, who won his state.
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Among the treasures in the Green Vault — founded by August the Strong, prince-elector of Saxony and King of Poland — were several sets of royal jewels.
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"As an elector from my home state of New York, I've never been more proud to cast a vote than my vote today for @HillaryClinton," he tweeted.
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If the Supreme Court affirms the idea of elector independence, then the justices will be simply endorsing Madison's idea: a system that has worked well for centuries.
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Suprun, who is about to be a "faithless elector," is also urging his fellow electors to make a choice other than Trump, and name-checked Ohio Gov.
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Given the acrimonious nature of the Republican primaries and his departure from many traditional Republican beliefs, it would appear that Trump would be ripe for elector defections.
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Similarly, Michael Baca, one of the leaders of the "Hamilton Elector" movement was replaced when he sought to cast a vote for John Kasich, rather than Clinton.
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"Objectively, as an elector, I can look at the emoluments clause and say, 'Look, Mr. Trump, you are making sales calls with your foreign policy,' " he said.
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The collection, which includes precious stones, sculptures and decorations some from gold and silver, was started in the 18th century by Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony.
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The following year, in response to this fiasco, a South Carolina congressman introduced an amendment requiring each elector to cast separate votes for president and vice president.
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The attempted faithless electors in Colorado, Minnesota, and Maine were also Sanders supporters from caucus states where Sanders won big, as was the faithless elector in Hawaii.
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The Elector sounded like the personification of a cog in the machine, a man whose hands are tied by a system he's put his blind faith in.
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In California, a federal judge scheduled a hearing for Friday morning on a similar request from an elector, Vinzenz Koller, who said he cannot vote for Hillary Clinton.
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"It sounds like sour grapes to me," the incoming president of Florida's Senate and an elector, Joe Negron of Stuart, said about the movement to change electors' stripes.
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Our federal Constitution allows states to create ballot access requirements that ensure that the ballots for every office, including the office of presidential elector, are comprehensible and informative.
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At least one Republican elector, and seven Democrats, have stated that they will not cast their votes for Trump or Clinton, but will choose a qualified Republican instead.
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The intent of the founders was that each elector should vote for whomever he believed would be the best person, in the entire United States, to be president.
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Georgia's were not, but before voting, electors there had to select a replacement for an elector who earlier has resigned, saying he could not vote for Mr. Trump.
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Bob Muller, a GOP county chairman in North Carolina and a Trump elector, said he's gotten correspondence from "everywhere from Maine to California" asking him to vote differently.
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In weighing each of the slates of rival electors submitted from the four states in contention, the commission uniformly certified the Hayes elector by an 8-7 vote.
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All but one of the letter's signees is a Democratic elector, with the exception of a Republican from Texas who has already announced he won't vote for Trump.
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He was elected Presidential Elector at Large for the State of New York in 1872, and was appointed to carry the electoral vote of the State to Washington.
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The reason for this is obvious: It's meant to prevent some rogue elector from ignoring the results of the vote and throwing the presidential election once she's chosen.
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But in the context of this bizarro hypothetical we're entertaining, that affidavit might incidentally serve another purpose — to prevent the elector from supporting her party's replacement presidential nominee.
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But these laws have rarely been tested, and there is little the state can do to prevent a defection by an elector who is willing to accept the penalty.
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While the term "Hamilton elector" has become part of the vernacular this election cycle, it is clear many electors consider Hamilton's original conceptualization when looking to fulfill their duties.
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The only electoral vote the party has received was in 1972, when a renegade Virginia elector pledged to President Richard Nixon cast his ballot for Libertarian John Hospers instead.
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These new appointments will bring the number of so-called elector cardinals to 543, five more than the limit of 120 established by Pope Paul VI for a conclave.
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This year, Ms. Ingram was chosen by the Working Families Party to be an elector who will cast one of New York State's 29 votes in the Electoral College.
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A Republican elector in Ohio is stepping down from her post hours before the state's Electoral College vote after a lawsuit questioning whether state lawmakers can serve as electors.
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The key point for now, Professor Lessig said, is to have a definitive answer on elector independence before the justices can know which candidate might benefit from their ruling.
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A lawyer for Michael Baca, a Colorado elector, told Politico that his client is preparing a lawsuit challenging state laws that force electors to vote for their party's nominee.
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But the "faithless elector" scenario still runs up against a mishmash of state laws, making it almost impossible for an across-the-board sweep of at least 270 electors defecting.
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That's what happened in 1800, when every Democratic-Republican elector cast his two electoral votes for the same two people — Vice President Jefferson and his putative running mate, Aaron Burr.
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But there hasn't been an election in which more than one elector jumped ship for reasons other than the death of a candidate since 1836, according to the nonprofit FairVote.
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For instance, in 2000 an elector from Washington, DC, withheld an electoral vote from Al Gore, because she wanted to protest the fact that DC didn't have representation in Congress.
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Last May, the Washington state Supreme Court held that the state could regulate the vote of an elector either directly or indirectly, upholding a $1,000 fine for the Clinton defectors.
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That elector was not affiliated with the Democratic group known as the Hamilton Electors, which lobbied Republican electors to defect from Trump and cast their votes for an alternative candidate.
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That was the 2004 election, when a single Democratic elector in Minnesota voted for the running mate John Edwards, rather than John Kerry, who was at the top of the ticket.
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The election of 1800 between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, well-dramatized in Lin-Manuel Miranda's rendering, also heralded a major but less-explored change in the office of presidential elector.
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This is why he decided to become a "faithless elector", as some have called him, by refusing to cast his electoral college vote in accordance with the results in his state.
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And, this information would need to be of such import that a reasonable elector would determine that if it had been known, it would have changed the outcome of the election.
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"Although he was a Sanders surrogate during the primary, he campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the general election and would have been an elector for her had she won," Elk writes.
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In Maine, Democratic elector David Bright first cast his vote for Clinton's rival for the party nomination, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who carried the state in the party nominating contest.
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Still, a group of protesters that gathered here on Monday for several hours said they had hoped there might be one elector, maybe even two, who might vote a different way.
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How it works There's an elector for every member of the House of Representatives (435) and Senate (100), plus an additional three for people who live in the District of Columbia.
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"There is nothing in the federal Constitution" that allows a state to remove an elector or nullify his vote, a three judge panel of the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals held.
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Donald Trump's tumultuous week brought this concern back into the spotlight as a Georgia Republican presidential elector (Baoky Vu) vowed he would not support Trump if he were to carry his state.
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In a footnote the court did leave open the possibility that if a secretary of state tries to remove an elector he or she could challenge that action under the federal Constitution.
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Only one GOP elector has publicly said he will not vote for Trump, however, and virtually all GOP electors reached by The Hill have said they will still be voting for Trump.
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One Republican elector voted for Ron Paul, a favorite among Libertarians and former Republican congressman, and another for Ohio Governor John Kasich, who challenged Trump in the race for the Republican nomination.
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Colorado went on to file all nine of its electoral ballots for Clinton because the elector who voted for Sanders was replaced in accordance with state law, as Fox 31 Denver reported.
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Popular selection of electors, the use of the winner-take-all method to award electoral votes, and elector loyalty were not prescribed by the Framers, but have become commonplace in presidential elections.
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" The states do have broad authority to decide who should be appointed as an elector, but this power cannot "be expanded to include the power to remove electors or nullify their votes.
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A Democratic elector in Washington says that if his party's presidential nominee, Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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The Republican Party clearly ended up falling behind Trump, and any Republican elector who abandons him would be defying the will of not only their state's voters but also the party generally.
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CNN reported that this is the first U.S. presidential election since 238 with more than one "faithless elector," or a member of the Electoral College who does not vote for their pledged candidate.
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Saturday Night Live took on the famous Love Actually card scene, this time with Hillary Rodham Clinton standing outside the door of an anonymous elector (Cecily Strong) who was rocking Keira Knightley's sweater.
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Some electors occasionally go rogue — a move that renders them a "faithless elector," though many states have laws requiring electors to pledge that they will support the winner of the state's popular vote.
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Soon after, the state passed a law where all votes would be made in public and any faithless vote would immediately be invalidated and the offender would be replaced by an alternate elector.
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And there haven't been many in modern times; the last time was in 2004, when an anonymous elector in Minnesota cast his vote for John Edwards instead of the Democratic candidate, John Kerry.
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Last month, the Supreme Court decided to take up two cases related to the Electoral College concerning whether a state can bind a presidential elector to vote for the state's popular vote winner.
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A Democratic elector in Washington state says he won't cast his vote for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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Only a few voters have publicly said they will not back the results of their home states, and virtually every GOP elector reached by The Hill said they will vote enthusiastically for Trump.
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We have witnessed faithless electors in 998 of the last 193 presidential elections -- the most recent being an elector in Minnesota who voted for John Edwards as both president and vice president in 219.
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For years, opponents of the Electoral College have seen any elector being "faithless" as a direct affront to democratic self-government as they are now intended to simply rubberstamp the decisions of the voters.
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At least until now, only one Republican elector has said he won't vote for Trump — Clinton would need 36 more to do so, which nobody has thought is really in the realm of possibility.
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Likewise, if a Floridian, or any other American, moved to Puerto Rico on a permanent basis, they'd no longer vote for an elector and so they'd no longer have a vote for US president.
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It would be clearly far worse to deny the presidency to the person supported by the most voters nationwide than to deny the seven persons filling temporary, honorary positions of presidential elector in Connecticut.
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They also make the case that even though elector intervention like this would be essentially unprecedented, it is in fact in line with what the Founding Fathers originally envisioned as the Electoral College's role.
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The electors' lawsuit is part of a broader strategy to undermine 28 similar elector "binding" laws across the country, including several in states where Republican electors say they're legally bound to support Donald Trump.
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Thus, it is far from clear that a state may sanction or remove a faithless elector any more than it could remove a Congress member who casts an unpopular vote before their term expires.
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"I am confident in saying, at this point I don't think I will be the only one voting for someone other than Donald Trump who is carrying a Republican elector seat," Suprun told ABC News.
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So, essentially what happens, if I tried to vote for somebody else, which, let me be clear, I don't want to, but if I tried to, I would be removed and replaced by another elector.
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"They say we can get unemployment insurance of $6003,200, but we have to enroll within five weeks, and we need our credencial de elector"—an official identification card—"and a proof of residence," Lopez says.
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Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to take up two cases related to the Electoral College concerning whether a state can bind a presidential elector to vote for the states' popular vote winner.
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Michael Banerian, 22, who was a Trump elector in the Electoral College, and is the youth vice chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, said he saw the president's more narrowly tailored order as common sense.
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In Washington state, for instance, Bernie Sanders utterly dominated the caucuses, and his supporters therefore ended up being strongly represented at the state's Democratic Party convention — the gathering that chose the state's Democratic elector slate.
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No one is asking a Republican elector to cast a ballot for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonCNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting Trump says he'll debate eventual Democratic nominee Bull meets china shop: Roger Stone controversy follows a familiar pattern MORE or a Democratic elector to vote for Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpBiden assures supporters the primary is still 'wide open' in lengthy phone call: report Warren: We are watching a descent into authoritarianism Collins: Trump 'angered by impeachment' MORE.
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In order to overcome Trump's 306-elector tally and put him below the 85033 required to clinch the presidency, the electors would have to somehow convince 37 Republicans to join them in picking an alternative candidate.
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Republican elector Christopher Suprun from Texas had said he would not vote for Trump, explaining in an op-ed in the New York Times that he had concerns about Trump's foreign policy experience and business conflicts.
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The collection was founded in the 18th century by Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and later King of Poland, who commissioned ever more brilliant jewellery as part of his rivalry with France's King Louis XIV.
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The collection was founded in the 18th century by Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and later King of Poland, who commissioned ever more brilliant jewelry as part of his rivalry with France's King Louis XIV.
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Three voted for Colin Powell, marking the first electoral votes for an African-American Republican, and the first time in history a major party elector crossed the aisle and supported a candidate of the opposing major party.
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What we actually have is a system in which the vast majority of electors vote in accordance with state outcomes — except for essentially random defections by little-known, idiosyncratic people who happen to have won elector slots.
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