This entry is in regards to this article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-electoral-college-republican-faithless-electors-stop-election-result-a7473296.html
I’ve been under the weather for most of this week, but a reader sent me a link this afternoon and I thought it was worth sharing. I had read a bit about it, but with the Wisconsin recalls and election hacking probe, it flew under my radar.
To break things down, there are 538 electoral votes spread out over the 50 US states, and the majority of that (270), is required to be elected President. Now here’s where things get interesting. From the graphic above, you can see that Donald Trump was nominated the Republican representative with 7,234 votes (or 34.4%) of the Republican party, with Ted Cruz coming in second at 4,515 (21.4%) and finally Marco Rubio at 4,438 (21.1%).
These numbers are important, since the top three successful candidates would be revoted on, if there was a non confidence vote within the party. This could be for any number of reasons, such as illness, or simply the candidate being unfit to serve as president.
The race to 270 is also interesting in the sense that Trump,’s final tally of 306 electoral votes, would mean the party would require 37 (the difference between his total, and the number required 270) to re-elect a new candidate.
As the above article states, this has happened only once in 1808, when six electors voted against James Madison.
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