“They’ve got our home phone numbers, our cell numbers, our emails, our Facebook”
In U.S. history, only 157 electors have been “faithless” electors, failing to vote for the candidate their state endorsed.
Sixty-three of those came when Democratic nominee Horace Greeley died after the election in 1872 but before the electoral college convened; those 63 abstained.
The most recent incident of a faithless elector came in 2004, when one Minnesota elector voted for the same candidate for both president and vice president.
