*in the ‘2016 election cycle’, the threshold of ‘270 electoral votes’ to win the presidency outright could have been thwarted by garnering a minimum of at least 12% of all ‘republican electors’ to become ‘faithless’, that is, ’37’ of ‘306’ ‘republican electors’*
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(in the ‘2016 united states presidential election’, 7 members of the ‘american electoral college’ voted for a different candidate than whom they were pledged to vote)
(the ‘democratic party’ nominee (‘hillary clinton’), lost 5 of her ‘pledged electors’ while the ‘republican party nominee’ + ‘president-elect’ (‘donald trump’), lost 2)
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(3 of the faithless electors voted for ‘Colin Powell’
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while John Kasich,
Ron Paul,
Bernie Sanders,
and ‘Faith Spotted Eagle’ each received 1 vote)
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(although there had been a combined total of 157 instances of individual electors voting faithlessly in over two centuries of previous US presidential elections, 2016 was a year in which multiple groups of electors worked to alter the result of the election in order to “vote their conscience for the good of America” in accordance with Alexander Hamilton’s “Federalist Paper #68.” and the first year since 1960 when one of the electors actively worked to change the election)
(‘electors’ were also subjected to public pressure, up to and including death threats)
(7 electors successfully cast faithless ballots for president, the most to defect from presidential candidates who were still alive in ‘Electoral College’ history, surpassing the 6 electors who defected from ‘James Madison’ in the 1808 election)
(historically, only in cases where the presidential candidate was no longer living at the time the electors cast their ballots, was this number of defections exceeded: the 7 faithless presidential votes in 2016 falls well short of the record set in 1872, when 63 of 66 electors originally pledged to losing candidate Horace Greeleycast their votes for someone else (Greeley had died between election day and the meeting of the ‘Electoral College’))
(the 6 faithless vice-presidential votes in 2016 is also short of the record for that office; without considering whether the vice-presidential candidates were still living; as multiple previous elections have had more than six faithless vice-presidential votes; and in 1836, faithless electors successfully moved the vice-presidential decision to the ‘U.S. Senate’)
(3 additional electors had their faithless votes invalidated under the statutes of the states where they were cast)
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(the defections fell well short of the number needed to change the result of the election; only 2 of the 7 defected from the presumptive winner, when ’37’ were needed to change the ‘outcome’)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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👈👈👈 ☜ *“2012”*
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*“2020”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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👈👈👈☜*“THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥