Washington State Elector Will Not Vote for Clinton, Period

The parties have their nominees and we’re coming down the home stretch of the presidential election.

Are there restrictions on who the Elector can vote for?

In the unlikely event that the election does not resolve, here are a few of the questions we’ll all be asking.

The method of using electors comes from the Constitution.

But of course, Donald Trump, over the course of the 2016 presidential election process, has managed to offend nearly everyone who isn’t a white heterosexual male Protestant. Each state has as many votes as it has members of Congress, and 48 states are winner-take-all. On November 6, NY magazine and other media outlets reported that a second elector from Washington state, Bret Chiafalo, said he’s considering his right to be a “conscientious elector” and to back another candidate. This year it is December 19, which is the latest it can be, just as this year’s Election Day is the latest it can be.

Beyond the criminal penalties, the state parties could try bringing down a lot of pressure on anyone who tries defying the vote totals.

The most important of these are the “battleground” or “swing” states with the largest number of electors, like Florida (29), Pennsylvania (20) and OH (18). Perhaps it is time to do away with the Electoral College.

Do each state’s electoral college votes all go to the same person?

ME has two districts, so its vote can be split 3-1 (as it appears likely to be this year).

The number of electors a state* is given is the number of representatives and senators they have.

The total number of electoral votes is 538, so 270 are needed to win.

So, what would happen if – for example – Trump loses but manages to tie things up in court past January 20th when the president is supposed to be sworn in? Instead, the people of the state are voting for electors.

How does that get resolved? There is no constitutional requirement they follow their states’ popular votes, but so-called “faithless electors” are a rarity and have never decided an election. The top three candidates are considered.

Along with these three features of the U.S. presidential election, there is another interesting fact of undecided voters in those states that have never exhibited any clear pattern of support for either of the two political parties. It took 36 ballots and much intrigue before DE abstained from the vote and allowed Jefferson to muster a bare majority to become president.

Has any of this ever happened? “It’s perfectly possible that, once again, the electoral college could produce a victor that has fewer popular votes than his or her opponent”.

There is one other loose end that often raises eyebrows when the Electoral College is discussed. Therefore a Republican’s vote in Maryland really does not matter and a Democrat’s vote in Texas is worthless, but if you are a resident of a swing state, your vote is much more important than the vote of an individual in a safe state, it said.

If the House can’t decide on a President by Inauguration Day, the Vice-President Elect (Kaine or Pence) serves as acting President until the deadlock is resolved. Whoever wins the majority of votes wins the election. Each state’s number of electors is equal to the number of its U.S. Senators (always two) plus the number of its U.S. Representatives, which is dependent on the state’s population.

Additionally, in 1836, the Senate chose Richard Mentor Johnson as vice president. Additionally, the Electoral College helps reduce the probability of an election where no candidate receives the majority of the votes. So while Van Buren ended up with a majority of electoral votes, Johnson did not, so it went into the Senate. If you live in Chicago and you happen to be, if you happen to be a conservative Republican, you feel that, in IL, I don’t have a chance to turn this around.

It would be very hard for a tie to occur without a state completely bucking its historical trend. In every state but two – ME and Nebraska – the winning candidate gets all the electors.ME and Nebraska each have proportional systems.

As the day for US Presidential Elections 2016 comes close, the wait is almost over to find out whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will reach the White House finish line, especially since latest polls show them neck-to-neck. On the other hand, the House is more likely to become more conservative – so the gridlock on Capitol Hill likely won’t change. Two Washington State electors are now signaling that they’ll refuse to vote for Hillary Clinton, even if the voters hand her the state. “I will not vote for Hillary Clinton“, he told ABC News.

Numerous procedures for voting in presidential elections are determined by state law, and administered by state officials.

Can I blame someone for this?

But the system also does violate that spirit of fairness that leads to a “one person one vote system”, especially if a DE citizen’s vote is worth twice that of a Georgian’s.

HARI SREENIVASAN: Jeffrey Dinowitz is a Democratic state assemblyman representing part of the Bronx in New York City.

He further touched upon the fact that the United States invested billions of dollars in converting from paper ballots to electronic voting but the votes can not be realistically verified and reliably recounted. Keehn feels a tug to vote for a third-party candidate but “the fear is that if you don’t vote for Clinton, you’re just giving a vote to Trump”. How did those get resolved?

On Tuesday, voters across America will march to the polls to support one of the presidential candidates. This is reflected in the early voting in Florida and elsewhere.