--- title: Electoral College Vote: How Electors Felt When They Voted description: "I'll admit, my hand shook a little," one elector said canonical: https://time.com/4606885/electoral-college-vote-2016-electors-ballots/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-19T19:29:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:23:30.308Z article:section: Politics og:title: See How Electors Felt About Casting Ballots for the Electoral College Vote og:description: "I'll admit, my hand shook a little," one elector said og:url: https://time.com/4606885/electoral-college-vote-2016-electors-ballots/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt231044f5d2bb0566/6988b37997cdff13ee6aef08/gettyimages-630218906.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-VOTE-TRUMP-PROTEST og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See How Electors Felt About Casting Ballots for the Electoral College Vote twitter:description: "I'll admit, my hand shook a little," one elector said twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt231044f5d2bb0566/6988b37997cdff13ee6aef08/gettyimages-630218906.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See How Electors Felt About Casting Ballots for the Electoral College Vote by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Dec 19, 2016 7:29 PM UTC  Gloria McVeigh, 65, holds a sign and cheers during a demonstration against US President-elect Donald Trump on the eve of the Electoral College vote, in Denver, Colorado on December 18, 2016\. AFP—AFP/Getty Images Gloria McVeigh, 65, holds a sign and cheers during a demonstration against US President-elect Donald Trump on the eve of the Electoral College vote, in Denver, Colorado on December 18, 2016\. AFP—AFP/Getty ImagesAFP—AFP/Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Dec 19, 2016 7:29 PM UTC Many members of the [Electoral College](http://time.com/4606291/electoral-college-vote-2016/) felt honored as the[ cast their ballots](http://time.com/4606624/watch-live-electoral-college-vote/) in the 2016 presidential vote on Monday. Several of the 538 electors who gathered in state capitols to vote shared their feelings on the process via Twitter on Monday. Chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party Alex Triantafilou tweeted that his “hand shook a little” when he signed his ballot. > [](https://twitter.com/ChairmanAlex/status/810907997253799936) Controversy has surrounded the typically quiet process, where electors’ votes follow the results of the general election. This year, however, electors have faced calls from across the U.S. to reconsider voting for President-elect Donald Trump. Most electors, it seems, will vote for the person their state selected, but there was at least one elector who said he would vote for [Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders](https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/12/19/maine-elector-says-vote-for-sanders-maine-elector-says-vote-for-sanders/rzVD3ijtgKObvn5dbvzddN/story.html) instead. > [](https://twitter.com/TishJames/status/810903516709580800) > [](https://twitter.com/BrianWestrate/status/810906855065186306) > [](https://twitter.com/stanggt/status/810910463764680705) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4606885/electoral-college-vote-2016-electors-ballots/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4606885/electoral-college-vote-2016-electors-ballots/"},"headline":"See How Electors Felt About Casting Ballots for the Electoral College Vote","datePublished":"2016-12-19T19:29:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:23:30.308Z","description":"\"I'll admit, my hand shook a little,\" one elector said","url":"https://time.com/4606885/electoral-college-vote-2016-electors-ballots/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","White House","Election 2016","Donald Trump","electoral college","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt231044f5d2bb0566/6988b37997cdff13ee6aef08/gettyimages-630218906.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt231044f5d2bb0566/6988b37997cdff13ee6aef08/gettyimages-630218906.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-VOTE-TRUMP-PROTEST","caption":"US-POLITICS-VOTE-TRUMP-PROTEST","creditText":"AFP—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4606885/electoral-college-vote-2016-electors-ballots/","name":"See How Electors Felt About Casting Ballots for the Electoral College Vote"}}]}] ```