{"id":717,"date":"2022-05-01T19:54:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T23:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/?p=717"},"modified":"2022-05-01T19:54:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T23:54:53","slug":"casting-the-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/electoral-college\/casting-the-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Casting The Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a video from the 2020 Election that was recorded the same day as the electors cast their votes for President, but that gets at several controversies about the Electoral College: faithless electors, the formal process, and recent laws that bind the hand of the electors.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Electoral College casts votes for president and vice president\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o8mKzKPHgJ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a video from the 2020 Election that was recorded the same day as the electors cast their votes for President, but that gets at several controversies about the Electoral College: faithless electors, the formal process, and recent laws that bind the hand of the electors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electoral-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}