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State electors cast their ballots on Dec. 6.

Description of how the electors cast their votes.

The Twelfth Amendment (1804) provided that electors cast separate ballots for president and vice president.

The 12th Amendment (1804) provided that electors cast separate ballots for president and vice president.

In Washington, three electors cast their ballots for Colin Powell, whom they identified as a compromise moderate.

"I would have preferred to stay six more days," Mr. Klain said, "and watch our electors cast their votes".

Thurmond drew the votes of only 2.4 percent of the public, though he garnered more than one million votes; because his supporters were concentrated heavily in the South, he was able to win four states (Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina) and 39 electoral votes (one Tennessee elector cast his electoral vote for Thurmond rather than Truman, the state's winner).

In explaining a system that includes individual electors casting their own ballots, Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers warned of the risks of inaugurating a president with"[t]alents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity".

Each member proposed one candidate, all of whom were discussed and, if necessary, examined in person, whereupon each elector cast a vote for every candidate of whom he approved.

A lone elector cast his vote for John Brown, a Frankfort attorney who would soon be elected to the U.S. Senate.

Rather, each elector cast two votes for two separate men (one of whom was required to live outside of the elector's home state).