https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector
The
United States Constitution does not specify a notion of
pledging; no federal law or constitutional statute binds an elector's vote to anything. All pledging laws originate at the state level;
[6][7] the
U.S. Supreme Court upheld these state laws in its 1952 ruling
Ray v. Blair. In 2020, the Supreme Court also ruled in
Chiafalo v. Washington that states are free to enforce laws that bind electors to voting for the winner of the popular vote in their state.
[8]
MacBride, pledged for Republicans
Richard Nixon and
Spiro Agnew, cast his electoral votes for
Libertarian candidates
John Hospers and
Tonie Nathan. MacBride's vice-presidential vote for Nathan was the first electoral vote cast for a woman in U.S. history.
[36]
1 –
1976 election: Washington Elector
Mike Padden, pledged for Republicans
Gerald Ford and
Bob Dole, cast his presidential electoral vote for
Ronald Reagan, who had challenged Ford for the Republican nomination. He cast his vice presidential vote, as pledged, for Dole.
[37]
1 –
1988 election: West Virginia Elector
Margarette Leach, pledged for Democrats
Michael Dukakis and
Lloyd Bentsen, instead cast her votes for the candidates in the reverse of their positions on the national ticket as a form of protest against the winner-take-all custom of the Electoral College; her presidential vote went to Bentsen and her vice-presidential vote to Dukakis.
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2000 and 2004Edit
1 –
2000 election: Washington, D.C. Elector
Barbara Lett-Simmons, pledged for Democrats
Al Gore and
Joe Lieberman, cast no electoral votes as a protest of
Washington D.C.'s lack of voting congressional representation.
[39] Lett-Simmons's electoral college abstention, the first since
1864, was intended to protest what Lett-Simmons referred to as the federal district's "colonial status".
[39] Lett-Simmons described her blank ballot as an act of
civil disobedience, not an act of a faithless elector; Lett-Simmons supported Gore and would have voted for Gore if she had thought he had a chance to win.
[39]
1 –
2004 election: An anonymous Minnesota elector, pledged for Democrats
John Kerry and
John Edwards, cast their presidential vote for "John Ewards" [
sic],
[40] rather than Kerry, presumably by accident.
[41] All of Minnesota's electors cast their vice presidential ballots for
John Edwards, including the elector who cast the anomalous presidential vote. Minnesota's electors cast secret ballots, so the identity of the faithless elector is not known. As a result of this incident, Minnesota statutes were amended to provide for public balloting of the electors' votes and invalidation of a vote cast for someone other than the candidate to whom the elector is pledged.
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2016Edit
Main article:
Faithless electors in the 2016 United States presidential election
10 –
2016 election:
In addition, three other electors attempted to vote against their pledges but had their votes invalidated:
- In Colorado, Kasich received one vote for president, which was invalidated, and the elector was replaced by one who cast a vote for Hillary Clinton.[45]
- In Maine, a Democratic Party elector attempted to vote for Bernie Sanders for president but ultimately cast a vote for Clinton.
- A Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party elector voted for Bernie Sanders for president and Tulsi Gabbard for vice president, but these votes were invalidated and the elector was replaced by an alternate elector who then cast votes for Clinton and Tim Kaine.
Hey
@Darkballs
Your idiotic suggestion that the state of Georgia has enacted laws in regards to state electors is retarded, no sorry your little whirlwind of I'll informed personal insults does not change reailty bud.
You know state electors of the democratic party cast their vote for the loser in protest right, in 2016?
The did so for Gore in 2000 as well
Kerry in 04 too
There's a whole list
One of those people actually did break a state law, because that state had the law on its books and THEY got fined, the rouge elector did, it didn't lead to felony charges against Gore or Clinton, Kerry, regan, Ford, or Nixon,
Should I continue or do you get my point yet?
So yeah , keep calling for banning posters for being more knowledgeable then you. Must suck to have to deal with someone like me, who utterly destroyes you and your ilk thread after thread and I won't back down either
of 2020, 33 states and the District of Columbia have laws that require electors to vote for the candidates for whom they pledged to vote, though in half of these jurisdictions there is no enforcement mechanism. In 14 states, votes contrary to the pledge are voided and the respective electors are replaced, and in two of these states they may also be fined. Three other states impose a penalty on faithless electors but still count their votes as cast.[1]
Yup anytime that a faithless elector cast a vote in defiance of their states outcome, the FAITHLESS ELECTOR received a fine...
A fine
A fucking fine
But for the first time in history, the canidiate the faithless elector was thinking about casting his electoral vote for IS FACING A FELONY
Thinking about it, not actually doing it no..
But fucking thinking about it
Wtf is wrong with you people?
