Mike Padden
 Mike Padden is a lawyer and politician from Spokane Valley Washington. He is a member of the Washington State Senate representing the 4th legislative district.Padden is well known as a faithless elector a Presidential Elector who casts his vote for someone other than for whom he has pledged to vote. In the 1976 U.S. presidential election Gerald Ford the Republican candidate and incumbent had lost the race to Democrat and former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter.