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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 constitutionality of state pledge laws was confirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1952 in Ray v. Blair [12] in a 5–2 vote. The court ruled states have the right to require electors to pledge to vote for the candidate whom their party supports, and the right to remove potential electors who refuse to pledge prior to the election.
In the United States, a contingent election is used to elect the president or vice president if no candidate receives a majority of the whole number of electors appointed. A presidential contingent election is decided by a special vote of the United States House of Representatives, while a vice-presidential contingent election is decided by a vote of the United States Senate.
The first sentence of the 12th Amendment states “ (T)he Electors shall meet…, and vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state ...
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 ...
While faithless electors have never changed the outcome of any presidential election, there are two occasions where the vice presidential election has been influenced by faithless electors: In the 1796 election , 18 electors pledged to the Federalist Party ticket cast their first vote as pledged for John Adams, electing him president, but did ...
Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) prepare to read the final certification of Electoral College votes cast in November's presidential election during a joint ...
The majority opinion, written by Circuit Judge Carolyn Baldwin McHugh and joined by Circuit Judge Jerome Holmes, stated that "The text of the Constitution makes clear that states do not have the constitutional authority to interfere with presidential electors who exercise their constitutional right to vote for the President and Vice President ...