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The majority opinion states that "The power of electors to vote comes from the State, and the elector has no personal right to that vote" to justify the fine. [ 6 ] [ 12 ] The lone dissent argues that the plenary power of the state to appoint electors may not be conflated with control over the electors once voting has begun, in line with ...
The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President ...
The Democratic ticket won states with 170 of the 294 electoral votes, but the 23 Virginia electors abstained in the vote for vice president, meaning the Democratic nominee, Richard M. Johnson, received 147 votes or exactly half of the electoral college (one short of being elected). Johnson was subsequently elected vice president by the U.S. Senate.
The new statute says the Vice President lacks the power "to determine, accept, reject, or otherwise adjudicate or resolve disputes over the proper list of electors, the validity of electors, or ...
The electors meet in their respective states on Dec. 17 to cast their ballots for president and vice president. Their votes are recorded on a certificate of vote, which is then sent to Congress.
However, voters are actually voting for a group — or "slate" — of electors. Nationally, there are a total of 538 electoral votes, or electors, meaning a candidate needs to secure 270 to win.
The Eastman memos, also known as the "coup memo", [6] [7] are documents by John Eastman, an American law professor retained by then-President Donald Trump, advancing the fringe legal theory that a U.S. Vice President has unilateral authority to reject certified state electors. This would have the effect of nullifying an election in order to ...
The law clarifies that the vice president's role in the counting of the electoral votes is "solely ministerial," with no power to "determine, accept, reject, or otherwise adjudicate or resolve disputes over the proper list of electors, the validity of electors, or the votes of electors."