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  2. List of people who received an electoral vote in the United ...

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    Two Maryland electors and one Vermont elector in 1792. A Kentucky elector in 1808. An Ohio elector in 1812. Three Maryland electors and one Delaware elector in 1816. Two Maryland electors in 1832. A Nevada elector in 1864. A Washington, DC elector, Barbara Lett-Simmons, in 2000. There are also two cases where votes were rejected by Congress:

  3. United States Electoral College - Wikipedia

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    An elector votes for each office, but at least one of these votes (president or vice president) must be cast for a person who is not a resident of the same state as that elector. [139] A "faithless elector" is one who does not cast an electoral vote for the candidate of the party for whom that elector pledged to vote.

  4. List of 2024 United States presidential electors - Wikipedia

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    In Maine and Nebraska within each congressional district one elector is allocated by popular vote – the states' remaining two electors (representing the two U.S. Senate seats) are winner-take-both. Except where otherwise noted, such designations refer to the elector's residence in that district rather than election by the voters of the district.

  5. How the Electoral College Actually Works

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    What happens if an elector goes rogue . While electors often vote for the presidential candidate they have pledged to vote for, sometimes “faithless electors,” do not do so. In 2016, seven ...

  6. What is the US electoral college, and how does it work?

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    If an elector votes against their state's presidential pick, they are termed "faithless". In 2016, seven electoral college votes were cast this way, but it did not change the result of the election.

  7. The road to the White House is through the Electoral College ...

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    In the United States, a presidential candidate is elected not by winning a majority of the national popular vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which grants electoral votes to ...

  8. List of 2020 United States presidential electors - Wikipedia

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    In Maine and Nebraska within each congressional district one elector is allocated by popular vote – the states' remaining two electors (representing the two U.S. Senate seats) are winner-take-both. Except where otherwise noted, such designations refer to the elector's residence in that district rather than election by the voters of the district.

  9. List of United States presidential elections by Electoral ...

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    The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...