| 单词 | faithless elector |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfaithless elector faithless elector n. (in a U.S. presidential election) a member of the electoral college who does not vote for the candidate for whom they had pledged to vote. ΚΠ 1928 Hamtramck (Michigan) Public School Bull. Oct. 24/2 No elector has dared or chosen to break his pledge since 1796... Faithless Elector Miles is unique. 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 Jan. a2 The senators discussed the recurring problem of the ‘faithless elector’. 1994 R. M. Hardaway Electoral College & Constit. vi. 147 Faithless electors have cast only 7 out of 17,000 votes cast in the past 150 years, and have never come close to affecting an election. 2012 J. Conrad What You should know about Politics—but Don't (2nd ed.) i. 31 Twenty-four states have laws to punish faithless electors, though none have ever been prosecuted. < as lemmas |
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