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- 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 they? Faithless electors are exceedingly rare by design. Electors are chosen because of their loyalty to their party. Basically, they’re partisans.
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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 ...
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Dec 8, 2016 · Since 1900, there have been only 16 faithless electors who defected for individual reasons, including the seven from Monday. Here’s a rundown of who those 16 are and why they voted the way they...
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.
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.
Jul 6, 2020 · Four "faithless electors" from Colorado and Washington state who did not conform to the popular vote in the 2016 election sued, claiming that states can regulate only how electors are chosen,...
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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 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.
