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When Electoral College members gather across the nation Monday to
elect the next president of the United States, 29 New York electors are
expected to show up in Albany for an event that's usually a bureaucratic
formality.
The arcane proceeding, whose origins date to the Founding Fathers,
has been thrust into a new light this year amid reports that the
presidential election may have been interfered with by a foreign
government. A rare split between the winners of the popular vote
(Hillary Clinton) and electoral vote (Donald Trump) has fueled calls for
reforms in the way the nation elects its president.
If Trump wins, it will be only the fifth time the Electoral College
chooses a president who did not win the popular vote in the general
election. Clinton leads by 2.8 million votes nationally.
As the controversy swirls over the vote, the meeting inside the state
Capitol's Senate chamber will remain rooted in procedures and
traditions that date back more than 200 years. In New York, electors
fill out paper ballots and deposit them in a wooden box, leaving it to a
clerk to count votes manually.
The New York electors, all Democrats, are part of a slate who pledged
to vote for Hillary Clinton for president and Tim Kaine for vice
president, the winners of the state's popular vote in the presidential
election.
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Source: Syracuse.com (via The Empire Report)
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