They didn’t teach us about faithless electors in grammar school 70 years ago, but they should have. Since then, I learned that I’m not really voting for Tweedledum or Tweedledee when I mark my ...

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The other term is faithless elector. It's an electorate that does not follow the state's popular vote. There's nothing in the Constitution that stops them, but some states have laws prohibiting it.

That ran them afoul of the state’s Faithless Elector statute, which said any elector who does not cast his or her vote for the person who won the majority of the state’s popular vote is ...

Faithless electors have occurred in recent elections, such as in 2000 and 2016: 2000 Election: In this highly contested election, where George W. Bush narrowly defeated Al Gore, two electors were ...

In the event of a tie, even one faithless elector could ostensibly swing the election. Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling in 2020 in Chiafalo v.

Most notably, five faithless electors voted for someone other than former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and two faithless electors voted for someone other than Trump in the 2016 election. In 2020 ...

Jan. 6, 2021, taught all Americans to pay close attention to the details when it comes to the presidential selection process. Many learned that the election was not over on ...

However, in the 2016 presidential election, two of the 38 electors who were pledged to then-President-elect Donald Trump did not cast their votes for him. They are known as faithless electors.

In Arizona, faithless electors are prohibited and if they make any faithless vote, it will be disqualified, Roberts said. READ MORE: Where to vote on the four major ASU campuses. While there are some ...

There have also been suggestions on X that Adams may act as a "faithless" elector by purposely not casting his vote for Kamala Harris in response to the federal investigation into him.

On October 22, 2024, the William & Mary Public Policy Program and Government Department invited Dr. Alan Kennedy, associate teaching professor and multi-term elector for Colorado and Virginia, to ...