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Chiafalo v. Washington, 591 U.S. 578 (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case on the issue of "faithless electors" in the Electoral College stemming from the 2016 United States presidential election. The Court ruled unanimously, by a vote of 9–0, that states have the ability to enforce an elector's pledge in presidential elections.
MORE: 2024 US Presidential Election Results: Live Map. To determine overlap, ABC News reviewed the 2020 alleged fake elector certificates with the current list of electors released by either the ...
In 2012, News21, an Arizona State University journalism project, published a database of 2,068 alleged electoral fraud cases reported between 2000 and 2012. [36] This represented about 0.000003 cases for every vote cast. 46 percent of cases also resulted in acquittals, dropped charges or decisions not to bring charges. [37]
On December 11, Democratic US Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut wrote on Twitter that Trump is "completely unhinged" and "the Electoral College must do what it was designed for." [40] Himes said he made the plea to the Electoral College because Trump refused to say that the Russians hacked Democrats during the election. [41]
The election of 1876, when several states submitted more than one slate of Electoral College voters, exposed the need for a means to resolve such disputed outcomes.
According to testimony Trump was aware of the fake electors scheme, and knew that Eastman's plan for Pence to obstruct the certification of electoral votes was a violation of the Electoral Count Act. [2] [3] Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, a "central figure" in the plot, coordinated the scheme across the seven states.
The US’s Electoral College system is now functioning far from how its creators originally intended, Gustaf Kilander writes ... during the Electoral College voting at the Statehouse on 18 ...
In the United States Electoral College, a faithless elector is an elector who does not vote for the candidates for U.S. President and U.S. Vice President for whom the elector had pledged to vote, and instead votes for another person for one or both offices or abstains from voting. As part of United States presidential elections, each state ...