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Jul 14, 2020 · Barry Fadem, President of the National Popular Vote, writes that the Supreme Court's decision on faithless electors reaffirms the states' ability to choose electors based on the outcome of the...
Dec 14, 2020 · According to NCSL, the following 33 states and D.C. have laws that bind electors to vote according to their pledge: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, D.C.,...
Jul 7, 2020 · If one of the 29 electors from Florida decided to vote for someone other than the winner of the popular vote in Florida, that person would be a faithless elector. As a practical matter, it is very unlikely that someone would do this in a way that could potentially change the outcome of the election.
- How Are Electors Chosen?
- When Does The Electoral College Vote?
- How Common Are Faithless Electors?
- What Happened in 2016?
- Could Faithless Electors Change The 2020 Presidential Election Outcome?
The Electoral College is made up of 538 delegates. The total number of electors represents the total number of U.S. senators, 100 (two per state); the total number of state representatives, 435; and three more electors for the District of Columbia. Sign-up for Your Vote: Text with the USA TODAY elections team. Each state has a number of electoral v...
The electors meet in their respective states to cast a ballot for president and a second for vice president. Electors cast their ballots on the Monday after the second Wednesday in December of the presidential election – about a month after Americans cast their ballots in the popular vote. This year, electors will meet on Dec. 14. It takes 270 or m...
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. Only one elector has cast a vote for the opposite party’s nominee instead of their own in a close contest, in 1796, according to the organization. Of the more than 23,000 electoral ...
There were an unusually high number of faithless electors in 2016. That year, Donald Trump won with 304 electoral votes. It was the fifth time in American history that the winner of the presidential election lost the popular vote. And it was the second time since 2000 – when Al Gore won the popular vote but George W. Bush won the Electoral College ...
Roosevelt said he doesn't expect to see any faithless electors this year, especially after what happened last cycle. "Electors are usually chosen pretty carefully, and after the 2016 election put a spotlight on them, I think the parties were probably even more focused on ensuring that they chose reliable people," he said. Chemerinsky said the Supre...
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.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear a case about electoral adultery. So-called “faithless electors” are members of the Electoral College who defy their state’s voters and cast their ballots for someone other than the presidential candidate who won the most votes in any given states.
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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...
