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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:
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...