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Arizona electors ignore protesters, choose Donald Trump

The Electoral College is “a process, not a place”, according to the government, and that process includes 538 electors casting their votes, which will then be counted by Congress.

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The survey, conducted by YouGov, found that 52 percent of voters favored the vote to be delayed.

The Electoral College formalized Donald Trump’s election victory on Monday despite protests around the country to encourage GOP electors to abandon the Republican.

At a year-end press conference on Friday, President Barack Obama all but named Russian President Vladimir Putin as behind Moscow’s alleged attempts to influence the election and vowed retaliations.

The gap between the results of the popular vote and the Electoral College tally has also left some electors unhappy, with Clinton garnering some 2.6 million votes more than Trump.

Earlier, a judge overruled the challenge to the electors’ oath and while they took the oath, two said they were signing the oath under “duress”.

That’s extremely unlikely. Nevertheless, activists have sought to sway Republican electors to vote against the president-elect, citing the Electoral College as a necessary component of the federal government’s system of checks and balances.

Over the objections of hundreds of protesters, Pennsylvania’s presidential electors Monday afternoon cast their 20 votes for Donald Trump.

Most electors said they were bound to cast their votes for the popular vote victor in SC, both ethically and legally – state law requires them to vote for the state’s top vote-getter.

In Michigan, the 16 electors were selected at the state’s Republican Party convention in August.

Clinton won the popular vote in the November 8 election. Bright said in a statement posted on his Facebook page. “To counter the politically volatile environment of the late 18th Century, the Electoral College was established to balance the state’s and people’s interests”. Congress will announce the name of the victor on 6 January – two weeks before the next president will be inaugurated.

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The 2016 presidential election continues to defy expectations as “faithless electors” emerged among Democrats refusing to support Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

DEC. 15 2016 FILE