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...

of these votes were invalidated under the faithless elector laws of their respective states, and the elector either subsequently voted for the pledged...

prohibiting faithless electors. All states except Maine and Nebraska use a party block voting, or general ticket method, to choose their electors, meaning...

Ultimately, Trump received 304 electoral votes and Clinton 227, as two faithless electors defected from Trump and five from Clinton. Trump was the first president...

opposition to the plurality, known as "faithless" or "unpledged" electors. In modern times, faithless and unpledged electors have not affected the ultimate outcome...

ballot, and none of the electors admitted to casting the Edwards vote for president, so it may never be known who the faithless elector was. It is not even...

___ (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case on the issue of "faithless electors" in the Electoral College stemming from the 2016 United States presidential...

Fourteen unpledged electors from Mississippi and Alabama cast their vote for Senator Harry F. Byrd, as did a faithless elector from Oklahoma. The 1960...

States. Spotted Eagle's single vote came from Robert Satiacum Jr., a faithless elector in Washington, who cast it for her instead of Hillary Clinton. Spotted...

does not eliminate the Electoral College or affect faithless elector laws; it merely changes how electors are pledged by the participating states. Under the...

an elector was snowbound and there was no law to replace him (Nevada had only become a state that year). In that of the latter, a faithless elector abstained...

election. States generally require electors to pledge to vote for that state's winning ticket; to avoid faithless electors, most states have adopted various...

Minnesota was the only state to split its electoral votes, as a faithless elector pledged to Kerry cast a ballot for John Edwards (written as John Ewards)...

candidate, became the first woman to receive an electoral vote, via faithless elector Roger MacBride. In the 1988 presidential election, Lenora Fulani became...

been mounted to elect unpledged electors in any state since 1964. An unpledged elector is distinct from a faithless elector who pledges their vote for a...

December 22, 2012) was an American politician. She was an openly faithless elector in the 2000 presidential election when she refused to cast her votes...

receive one Electoral College vote from Virginia from a Republican faithless elector (see below). The Libertarian vice-presidential nominee Tonie Nathan...

president in the 1972 United States presidential election due to a faithless elector supporter who eschewed his expected votes for President Richard Nixon...

tickets If not for a faithless elector, Nixon and Agnew would have won 521 (96.8%) Electoral College votes. If not for a faithless elector, Ford would have...

votes: the first was Tonie Nathan who in 1972 received one vote from a faithless elector. This was followed by Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 and Sarah Palin in...

Hillary Clinton 227, as two faithless electors defected from Trump and five defected from Clinton. Four faithless electors were from Washington (defected...

convention. Roger MacBride, who had gained fame in the 1972 election as a faithless elector, ran as the nominee of the Libertarian Party. Eugene McCarthy, a former...

since 1824, or won at least one electoral vote from an elector who was not a faithless elector. † and bolded indicates a winning candidate ‡ indicates...

for Vice President: Tonie Nathan of the Libertarian Party, from a faithless elector (1972) First Jewish Secretary of Defense: James R. Schlesinger (1973)...

College votes. If not for a faithless elector, Eisenhower and Nixon would have won 458 (86.3%) in 1956. If not for a faithless elector, Nixon and Agnew would...

president, Satiacum did not vote as pledged, and as such is regarded as a faithless elector. Satiacum is the son of the late Robert Satiacum Sr., an advocate...

where a Republican presidential candidate lost a pledged vote via a faithless elector; that year, Gerald Ford lost a Washington state electoral vote to...

other groups, such as the Hamilton Electors and celebrities, the campaign resulted in the largest number of "faithless" electoral votes ever cast in a single...

when electors have failed to do so; called faithless electors. While there is no federal law requiring electors to vote according to a state's popular vote...

party's electors when Richard Nixon won the popular vote for his second term as president of the United States. MacBride, however, as a "faithless elector,"...