Presidential Electors and the Electoral College: An Examination of Lobbying, Wavering Electors, and Campaigns for Faithless Votes By Robert M. Alexander

Presidential Electors and the Electoral College: An Examination ...

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A Risk to the Republic?

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1. The term faithless elector has come to dominate descriptions of presidential electors who fail to vote for the candidates they are expected to vote for.

2. Misfire refers to popular–electoral vote splits in which the electoral vote winner did not receive the most popular votes. Brian Gaines has made a strong case that the 1960 election could be counted as yet another misfire (see Gaines 2001).

3. All electors responded in confidentiality, and names are withheld by mutual agreement.

4. The vice president of the United States (in this case, Al Gore) presides over the certification of electoral votes before Congress.