If California Votescam were in place nationally, each Congressional district would elect a single elector, and two would go to the over-all winner in each state.
A swing of a single elector in each of two states, Virginia and North Carolina, then voting by districts, would have reversed the result, making Jefferson president and Adams vice president.
Though he lost the nomination, he received 307 write-in votes in New Hampshire, 388 votes as an Independent on Wyoming's ballot, and a single electoral vote from a faithless elector in the November election from the state of Washington, which Ford had won over Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter.
The most recent presidential election in which a single faithless elector cropped up was 2004.
If, for example, a state submits a single slate of electors, Congress must count those votes unless both Houses agree that the votes "have not been... regularly given".
It was not until 1845 that Congress decided there should be a single date for presidential electors to be chosen in the states, the Tuesday immediately following the first Monday in November.
Brown reportedly offered Nick Clegg legislation on shifting to a system of single transferable voting, in which the electors' second and third preferences would be reapportioned until one candidate gained a majority.
Under the party-list system, the elector votes not for a single candidate but for a list of candidates.
Electors get two votes: a single vote for 73 first-past-the-post constituencies, and then a vote for a regional list candidate.
Two dissenting justices, David Souter and Stephen Breyer, agreed that there were equal-protection problems, so a remand to see whether a recount could be carried out on a single standard by Dec. 18, when the electors are supposed to meet, would have been by a more convincing 7-2 vote.
This changed, however, in 1672, when Leibniz was given the single most important opportunity of his life: the Elector of Mainz sent him on a diplomatic mission to Paris, the center of learning and science at the time.
