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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...
Oct 21, 2020 · Faithless electors have never changed an election outcome. But in this chaotic election year, their potential to disrupt the presidential election may loom larger.
Historically, faithless electors have been uncommon, and they have never changed the outcome of a presidential election. According to FairVote, out of 23,507 electoral votes counted throughout U.S. history, only 90 electors did not vote for their party's presidential nominee.
Aug 21, 2019 · By Pete Williams. A federal appeals court ruled late Tuesday that presidential electors who cast the actual ballots for president and vice president are free to vote as they wish and cannot...
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Jul 6, 2020 · So-called faithless electors have not been critical to the outcome of a presidential election, but that could change in a race decided by just a few electoral votes. It takes 270...
Jul 14, 2020 · If the political parties do their job carefully and well, faithless electors cannot have any effect on the outcome of a presidential election—under either the current...
Dec 13, 2020 · Have faithless electors ever swung an election? It’s never happened, though there are past examples where – theoretically– faithless electors could have changed an election outcome.
