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In the United States Electoral College, a faithless elector is an elector who does not vote for the candidates for U.S. President and U.S. Vice President for whom the elector had pledged to vote, and instead votes for another person for one or both offices or abstains from voting.
Faithless electors most often vote for a candidate who is not on the ballot rather than the opposing party's nominee. The sole instance in which a faithless elector voted for the opposing party's nominee occurred in 1796.
Jul 6, 2020 · Thirty-two states have some sort of faithless elector law, but only 15 of those remove, penalize or simply cancel the votes of the errant electors. The 15 are Michigan, Colorado, Utah, Arizona,...
Jul 14, 2020 · On July 6, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that states have the power to require presidential electors to vote for their party’s candidate for president.
Jul 6, 2020 · By Pete Williams. WASHINGTON — The 538 people who cast the actual votes for president in December as part of the Electoral College are not free agents and must vote as the laws of their states...
Dec 8, 2016 · No elector has ever been prosecuted for not voting as pledged. Since 1900, there have been only 16 faithless electors who defected for individual reasons, including the seven from Monday.
The movement attempted to find 37 Republican electors willing to vote for a different Republican in an effort to deny Donald Trump a majority in the Electoral College and force a contingent election in the House of Representatives.
Dec 13, 2020 · Historically, electors have overwhelmingly voted for the candidate who wins the popular vote in their state – but they can stray. If they do, they’re called faithless electors. How common are...
Oct 21, 2020 · American history has seen a handful of faithless electors—156 by one count —who vote for someone other than that candidate. Faithless electors have never changed an election outcome. But in...
Nov 4, 2020 · Faithless electors are not common, and they've never changed the outcome of a presidential election, according to FairVote, a nonprofit that advocates electoral reform.
