Although the electors normally vote for their candidates, there have been faithless electors who voted for someone else or else did not vote.
If I voted for a republican sheriff can I still vote demacrat president
an "electorate" is a group of people that can vote an "elector" is someone who can vote
You become an elector once you get the right to vote.
The framers the elector to choose both vice and the president by the most vote. This is chosen by a group.
Yes - he would essentially be voting for himself as elector.
In the United States, individual casting of electoral votes for president occurs when members of the Electoral College cast their votes for the presidential candidate that won their state's popular vote. Each elector has the discretion to vote for the candidate of their choice. However, some states have laws that require electors to vote according to the popular vote result in their state.
An elector is generally a voter; a citizen who has a legal right to vote. The more specific term is a voting representative, one of 535 individuals who cast ballots to elect a US President and Vice President in the Electoral College.
The electors are the people who officially elect the president. When people vote for president, they are actually voting for an elector who is sworn to support one particular candidate.
Ronald Reagan formally changed his vote registration to Republican in 1962.
"Elector" is a common noun, as it refers to a general class of people who have the ability to vote in an election.
A renegade elector is a member of the Electoral College who casts a vote for a person other than the one he or she has promised to vote for. If you vote for President, you don't vote for the presidential candidate, you vote for an elector who has pledged that he or she will vote for that candidate. This pledge is not legally binding. Any elector may vote for any candidate regardless of his/her pledge. The Electoral College was set up this way becaue the framers of the Constitution did not fully trust the general electorate. This is because more and more voters were coming from unpropertied classes, unlike the Framers. They feared the possibility that a popular vote might elect a person who threatened their property interests. At the time it was expected that electors would only be persons with property interests. Thus, if a president who theatened property interests were elected by the general public, it was expected that that person would vote for the more "responsible" candidate instead and prevent that person from becoming president.
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