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3 Electoral College members may pass on GOP ticket

...President Joe Biden would be the favorite. Because so-called faithless electors are rare, the position of elector is largely viewed...majority of the electoral votes. There have been a handful of faithless electors in recent years. In 2004, one Minnesota elector...

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Possibility of renegade electors has some Democrats hopeful

...electoral margin potentially just a few votes, a so-called "faithless elector" or three could swing the election. So some Democrats...http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/elctcoll About "faithless electors": http://www.avagara.com/e--c/ec...

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Audiences give good reception to 'Wedding Planner'

...of theaters to wider release, grossing $1.9 million and finishing at No. 18. In limited release, Liv Ullmann's "Faithless," which she directed from a script by Ingmar Bergman, debuted with a healthy $29,462 in just two theaters. Despite...

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Electoral College upholds Bush victory

...Constitution requires. Now all that remains is for Congress to tally the votes on Jan. 6, and then the inauguration. One "faithless elector" surfaced, but instead of damaging Bush's margin of victory, a District of Columbia Democrat left her Gore ballot...

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Open Forum

...elected by the Electoral College was not the winner of the popular election. There have also been ten elections in which faithless electors have not voted for their party's candidate. Additionally, in order to win, presidential candidates are forced...

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Opinion
To be an elector this year is to ponder one's existence

...My phone jangling like chimes in a Santa Ana wind, offering ambassadorships. Changing my pledged vote could make me a "faithless elector." I've been called worse. And I'd be in all the history books, which I'd have time to read while doing three...

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Opinion
Open Forum

...God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not...

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Opinion
Split vote gives rise to calls for changing Electoral College system

...who happens to be Gore -- who will certify them on Jan. 6. Since 1948, however, there have been seven so-called "faithless electors" who have broken their commitment to a party candidate, usually to make a political statement or promote a cause...

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Across nation, electors gather to cast votes for president

...day before, put us up in hotel and feed us dinner." And though some Democrats have encouraged the wooing of so-called "faithless electors," others have criticized the tactic. "I think it's unrealistic and I think it would be doomed to failure...

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Evolving faith

...He also hopes to help fundamentalist scientists see the error of their ways. Whatever one's stripes or lack thereof, helping fundamentalists evolve can only be good for civilization - a cause in which even the faithless can believe.

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