2 ‘faithless electors’ try to vote for Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton

But they voted against the Democratic nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, instead of against President-elect Trump.

In Minnesota and Maine, two Democratic electors attempted to vote for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who ran against Clinton during the Democratic primary.

David Bright, the Maine elector, said in a statement he was a Democratic elector, not a Clinton elector.

“I cast my vote for Bernie Sanders not out of spite, or malice, or anger, or as an act of civil disobedience,” he said. “I mean no disrespect to our nominee. I cast my vote to represent thousands of Democratic Maine voters — may less than a third my age — who came into Maine politics for the first time this year because of Bernie Sanders.”

“They organized, telephoned and sent in their $27. Many stood in line for hours in order to navigate our byzantine system of caucuses and convention this spring so they could be among the two-third of Maine Democrats who cast a vote for Sanders.”

In Minnesota, Muhammad Abdurrahman voted for Sanders over Clinton. He told a reporter he voted for Sanders and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for vice president in order to protest Minnesota’s law that excludes votes from faithless electors and replaces them with an alternate.

Neither Bright nor Abdurrahman’s votes for Sanders count: Abdurrahman is being replaced with an alternate who voted for Clinton; Bright’s vote was deemed improper, forcing him to change his vote for Clinton.

One elector in Colorado also refused to vote for Clinton, according to a Denver Post reporter. That elector was then replaced and Clinton ended up receiving all nine of the state’s electoral votes.

It’s not clear who the faithless elector voted for from initial reports.