faithless elector

However, all 23 of them became faithless electors and refused to vote for Johnson.

Faithless electors have not changed the outcome of any presidential election to date.

There have been "faithless electors" before, but none when it really mattered.

They can, but they then become what are known as "faithless electors."

Such "faithless electors" could throw the election to the opposing candidate.

The following is a list of all faithless electors (in reverse chronological order).

Faithless electors have actually popped up fairly frequently in American electoral history.

How might the existence of faithless electors impact the results of an election?

There have been several incidents in which a 'faithless elector' has voted for someone other than the major candidates.

One notable instance of faithless electors rearing their head occurred in 1972.

John Hospers receives one electoral vote from a faithless elector.

Thurmond got 39 electoral votes including a faithless elector in Tennessee.

The number preceding each entry is the number of faithless electors for the given year.

Adams received his vote from a faithless elector.

Twenty-four states have laws to punish faithless electors.

He is remembered as a faithless elector.

Instead, his electoral votes came from unpledged Democratic electors and a faithless elector.

An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.

Usually, the faithless electors act alone.

He offered a counterproposal, keeping the state-by-state majority count but eliminating the chance of faithless electors.

A faithless elector from Washington voted for Ronald Reagan, who would win the 1980 election.

In Pennsylvania, the campaign committee of each candidate names their candidates for elector (an attempt to discourage faithless electors).

However, he did receive one electoral vote from Virginia from a Republican faithless elector (see below).

Preston Parks was a so-called faithless elector during United States presidential election, 1948.

Walter Burgwyn Jones got one vote by a faithless elector in Alabama.