"Ok fine you say! Whatever. Even if someone else is voting for me no one would ever actually vote against the will of the people would they? Of course they would! And it's happened 156 times since the founding of the Electoral College! Such delegates are referred to as "faithless electors."


71 votes were changed because the Pres or VP died before the elector was able to cast a vote. Two votes were not cast at all, by abstaining.
63 electors of Horace Greeley changed their votes after Greeley died. 3 Electors voted for Greeley anyway and the votes were discounted by congress.

2 Maryland electors refused to vote for Presidental Candidate Henry Clay. In the same year 30 electors from PA refused to support Dem VP Martin Van Buren and voted for William Wilkins.

85 were changed by the electors personal interests or by accident. In 1936, one case 23 Virginia electors conspired to change their vote together, for Vice President.

In that case, the only case in which a winning candidate was rejected, Richard Mentor Johnson, the expected candidate, was promptly elected Vice President of the US by the US Senate in February 1937

No election has ever been changed.