The 1792 United States presidential election was the second quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday,November 2,to Wednesday,December 5,1792. Incumbent President George Washington was elected to a second term by a unanimous vote in the electoral college,while John Adams was reelected as vice president. Washington was essentially unopposed,but Adams faced a competitive re-election against Governor George Clinton of New York.
The 1820 United States presidential election was the ninth quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Wednesday,November 1,to Wednesday,December 6,1820. Taking place at the height of the Era of Good Feelings,the election saw incumbent Democratic-Republican President James Monroe win reelection without a major opponent. It was the third and the most recent United States presidential election in which a presidential candidate ran effectively unopposed. As of 2024,this is the most recent presidential election where an incumbent president was re-elected who was neither a Democrat nor a Republican,before the Democratic-Republican party split into separate parties. James Monroe's re-election marked the first time in U.S. history that a third consecutive president won a second election. This happened again with Barack Obama's re-election in 2012,following Bill Clinton in 1996 and George W. Bush in 2004,which all three consecutive presidents won their re-election campaigns,which is the only other time any two-term presidents succeded another. Monroe is also the first candidate to receive over 200 electoral votes for president.
The 1976 United States presidential election was the 48th quadrennial presidential election,held on Tuesday,November 2,1976. The Democratic nominee,former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter,narrowly defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford. This was the first presidential election since 1932 in which the incumbent was defeated,as well as the only Democratic victory of the six presidential elections between 1968 and 1988.
In the United States,the Electoral College is the group of presidential electors that is formed every four years during the presidential election for the sole purpose of voting for the president and vice president. The process is described in Article Two of the Constitution. The number of electoral votes exercised by each state is equal to that state's congressional delegation which is the number of Senators (two) plus the number of Representatives for that state. Each state appoints electors using legal procedures determined by its legislature. Federal office holders,including senators and representatives,cannot be electors. Additionally,the Twenty-third Amendment granted the federal District of Columbia three electors. A simple majority of electoral votes is required to elect the president and vice president. If no candidate achieves a majority,a contingent election is held by the House of Representatives,to elect the president,and by the Senate,to elect the vice president.
The 2004 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 2,2004. Voters chose 15 representatives,or electors to the Electoral College,who voted for president and vice president.
In the United States Electoral College,a faithless elector is generally a party representative who does not have faith in the election result within their region and instead votes for another person for one or both offices,or abstains from voting. As part of United States presidential elections,each state legislates the method by which its electors are to be selected. Many states require electors to have pledged to vote for the candidates of their party if appointed. The consequences of an elector voting in a way inconsistent with their pledge vary from state to state.
The 2004 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 2,2004,and was part of the 2004 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives,or electors to the Electoral College,who voted for president and vice president.
The 2008 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia took place on November 4,2008,and was part of the 2008 United States presidential election. In D.C.,voters chose three representatives,or electors to the Electoral College,who voted for president and vice president. Prior to the election,the nation's capital was considered to be a certain lock for Obama. Washington D.C. is fiercely Democratic and has voted for the Democratic candidate in every presidential election by large margins since 1964 when the District gained the right to electoral representation through the 23rd amendment.
The election of the president and for vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington,D.C.,cast ballots not directly for those offices,but instead for members of the Electoral College. These electors then cast direct votes,known as electoral votes,for president and for vice president. The candidate who receives an absolute majority of electoral votes is then elected to that office. If no candidate receives an absolute majority of the votes for president,the House of Representatives elects the president;likewise if no one receives an absolute majority of the votes for vice president,then the Senate elects the vice president.
Jeffrey H. "Jeff" Baxter is a former American businessman and politician of the Republican Party. Baxter represented Washington's 4th Legislative District in the Washington State Senate for less than 10 months during 2011. Despite being the second choice of the Republican Precinct Committee Officers to current State Representative Matt Shea,he was appointed in February 2011 to fill the vacancy following Senator Bob McCaslin,Sr.'s resignation due to health difficulties. Baxter was ultimately defeated in a special election in November 2011 to former State Representative and Spokane County District Court Judge Mike Padden by nearly 10 points.
Vance Peterson is a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and a district court judge in Spokane County,Washington.
David Charles Nye is an American lawyer and jurist who is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Idaho. He was a state court judge for Idaho's Sixth District Court from 2007 to 2017,and before that spent twenty years in private practice in Idaho.
The 1976 United States presidential election in Washington was held on November 2,1976,as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine representatives,or electors,to the Electoral College,who voted for president and vice president.
Anthony Kern is an American politician and a Republican member of the Arizona Senate,representing District 27 since 2023. He previously represented District 20 in the State House of Representatives from January 5,2015,to January 11,2021.
In the 2016 United States presidential election,ten members of the Electoral College voted or attempted to vote for a candidate different from the ones to whom they were pledged. Three of these votes were invalidated under the faithless elector laws of their respective states,and the elector either subsequently voted for the pledged candidate or was replaced by someone who did. Although there had been a combined total of 155 instances of individual electors voting faithlessly prior to 2016 in over two centuries of previous US presidential elections,2016 was the first election in over a hundred years in which multiple electors worked to alter the result of the election.
Equal Citizens is an American non-profit,non-partisan group that is "dedicated to reforms that will achieve citizen equality". It was founded in late 2016 by Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig to continue the effort to bring about the set of reforms he proposed during his 2016 presidential campaign. Notably,as its inaugural campaign,the group launched "Electors Trust" immediately after the 2016 general election. They did this to provide free and strictly confidential legal support to any elector who wished to vote their conscience. Working together with several other groups,such as the Hamilton Electors and celebrities,the campaign resulted in the largest number of "faithless" electoral votes ever cast in a single presidential election.
Chiafalo v. Washington,591 U.S. 578 (2020),was a United States Supreme Court case on the issue of "faithless electors" in the Electoral College stemming from the 2016 United States presidential election. The Court ruled unanimously,by a vote of 9–0,that states have the ability to enforce an elector's pledge in presidential elections. Chiafalo deals with electors who received US$1,000 fines for not voting for the nominees of their party in the state of Washington. The case was originally consolidated with Colorado Department of State v. Baca,591 U.S. ___ (2020),a similar case based on a challenge to a Colorado law providing for the removal and replacement of an elector who does not vote for the presidential candidate who received the most votes in the state,with the electors claiming they have discretion to vote as they choose under the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution. On March 10,2020,Justice Sonia Sotomayor recused herself in the Colorado case due to a prior relationship to a respondent,and the cases were decided separately on July 6,2020. Baca was a per curiam decision that followed from the unanimous ruling in Chiafalo against the faithless electors and in favor of the state.
The following is a timeline of major events before,during,and after the 2020 United States presidential election,the 59th quadrennial United States presidential election,from November 2020 to January 2021. For prior events,see Timeline of the 2020 United States presidential election (2017–2019) and Timeline of the 2020 United States presidential election.
James Roberts Troupis is an American lawyer and Republican political operative from Dane County,Wisconsin. He was an attorney for Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign,and was involved in the efforts to overturn the election results. He was also involved in the plot to produce fraudulent electoral votes to challenge the legitimate electoral votes at the January 6 certification. As a result of his involvement in the fraudulent elector plot,he has been charged with conspiracy to utter as legitimate a forged document.
