Minnesota electors align for Clinton; one replaced after voting for Sanders

Minnesota's participants in this year's Electoral College mostly hit their ceremonial marks on Monday, though a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders used the occasion for one last expression of dissent.

None of it, the protest vote by the so-called "faithless elector" included, make a bit of difference in the national outcome: Donald Trump will become the nation's 45th president, despite protests outside the meeting in St. Paul and around the country.

"I always wondered what I would do if I were alive during the Civil Rights movement, and now this is my chance to participate in something that matters a lot to the country and the world," Charissa Pederson, a Minnesotan home from Colombia where she teaches English, said amid a group of protesters hoisting signs noting Democrat Hillary Clinton's popular vote lead.

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