At the time, before the formation of modern political parties, there was widespread concern that candidates would routinely fail to secure a majority of electors in the electoral college.
Clinton leads President-elect Donald Trump by nearly 800,000 votes nationally with a final count still pending, but Trump won the most electors in the electoral college system that is how the country actually picks its president.
And of course, by that time, it had been centuries since German electoral princes had actually elected anybody, being electors in name alone.
Each federal electoral district is responsible for revising the list of electors in that district.
Under the Assembly's Civil Constitution of the Clergy (July 1790), bishops were to be elected by départements' electoral assemblies, while parish priests were to be chosen by electors in the districts.
Yet in 2001 only 59% of electors in Britain voted.
That guaranteed a Republican legislature, which in turn guaranteed Republican electors in November.
But the campaign left some electors in a quandary even as they voted.
In theory, these privileges were confined to the seven electors; in practice, all the princes quickly adopted them.
The Framers vested the authority to determine the manner for the appointment of presidential electors in the state legislatures.
Electors in New Mexico are bound by law to cast their votes for the candidate who wins the state.
