The House has passed a measure called the “Uniform Faithful Presidential Electors Act.
It affects the vote from North Dakota’s three Presidential electors. North Dakota has three Electoral votes, because of the size of the state s Congressional delegation.
The measure requires the votes be cast for the candidate who won the popular vote in the November election.
Bismarck Republican Representative Lawrence Klemin told the House North Dakota does not have this kind of law in place. For instance, an elector chosen by one party, as the result of the popular vote, could decide to cast a vote for the candidate that lost the popular vote, Klemin told the House. This hasn t happened here. But it is possible.
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On Dec. 14, 2020, as state electors around the country formalized the results of the 2020 presidential election by casting ballots in the electoral college, conservative personalities such as Antonio Sabato Jr. posted messages claiming that the GOP electors in Nevada, a state that was won by President-elect Joe Biden by more than 30,000 votes, had cast their ballots instead for U.S. President Donald Trump:
Sabato Jr. is referring to an unofficial ceremony held by a group of people pretending to represent Nevada’s state electors in which they cast fake ballots for Trump. This ceremony was unsanctioned, these people were not the state’s electors, and these fake ballots were unofficial.