RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Latest on the meeting of Virginia’s members of the Electoral College (all times local):
12:30 p.m.
Virginia’s 13 members of the Electoral College have cast their votes for Hillary Clinton as expected.
The electors met Monday afternoon at the state Capitol and voted unanimously for Clinton, who won the statewide vote in November.
Electors in every state are meeting Monday. Although Clinton won the popular vote by 2.6 million votes, Trump is expected to win 306 of the 538 electoral votes under the state-by-state distribution of electors used to choose presidents since 1789.
Usually a ceremonial step in the road to the presidency, the Electoral College has drawn intense scrutiny this year. GOP electors have been inundated with emails, phone calls and letters urging them to vote against Trump. But an Associated Press survey of electors found very little appetite to vote for alternative candidates.
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10:50 a.m.
Dozens of people are gathered in Richmond for a peaceful demonstration urging members of the Electoral College to vote against Republican Donald Trump.
Around 60 people holding signs that say “respect my vote” and “say no to bigotry” congregated outside the state Capitol on Monday morning, hours before Virginia’s electors are set to meet there. Demonstrators are singing “This Land is Your Land” and chanting, “You have a choice - raise your voice.”
Virginia’s 13 electors are bound to vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton, who won the state last month. They will convene at noon.
Clinton won the popular vote by 2.6 million votes, but Trump is poised to win 306 of the 538 electoral votes under the state-by-state distribution of electors used to choose presidents since 1789.
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2 a.m.
Virginia’s Democratic members of the Electoral College are convening to cast their vote for the next president of the United States.
The electors will meet at the state Capitol at noon. Virginia, like most states, has a winner-take-all system that awards all electors to the candidate that carried that state. The electors are bound to vote for their party’s nominee.
Virginia has 13 electors, corresponding to the number of seats the state has in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives combined.
A candidate must get 270 votes to win the presidency.
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