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For all the anticipatory rhetoric about a potential wave of Electors refusing to endorse Trump, it may come as a surprise that the first “faithless elector” to emerge in Monday’s Electoral College vote was in Minnesota has refused to vote not for Trump but for Hillary Clinton.
As the Hill reports, Muhammad Abdurrahman, a former Bernie Sanders delegate to the Democratic National Convention, attempted to vote for no candidate, according to The Associated Press’s Kyle Potter.
Abdurrahman’s vote was declared invalid and an alternate elector was appointed, allowing the state to go ahead and deliver its 10 electoral votes for Hillary Clinton.
Many liberals have protested Donald Trump’s presidential election victory, calling on Republican electors to refuse to back Trump. Instead, the day’s first “faithless elector” is a DemocraT.
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Two faithless democrat faithless ordered by the judge to vote for Clinton.
Williams revised the oath for electors to make it explicit that they would be swearing to vote for the person who received the most votes in the most recent general election. State law already says electors have to vote for that person, but Williams wanted to make it crystal clear that a vote for someone other than Hillary Clinton was a violation of the oath of office.