Meanings of faithless elector in English

Circuit Court of Appeals against Colorado's cancellation of a faithless elector's vote.

The most recent presidential election in which a single faithless elector cropped up was 2004.

The most recent instance of a " faithless elector" was in 2004, according to the Congressional Research Service.

But more than a dozen states have no rules against faithless electors.

In 2016, the stakes for Chiafalo and the other faithless electors were high.

Faithless electors could change the outcome of presidential elections with thinner Electoral College margins.

A lower court upheld Washington state's fine against Chiafalo and two other faithless electors.

There have apparently been 157 occasions of ' faithless electors' but none have affected the outcome.

Paul Smith, vice president of the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center voting-rights advocacy group, emphasized the dangers of faithless electors.

The justices must decide if states can penalize faithless electors with actions including monetary fines or removal from the role.

The Washington state case arose after three faithless electors voted for former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, a moderate Republican, instead of Clinton.

The Supreme Court recently ruled that states could punish " faithless electors" who cast votes for someone other than the winner of their state.

Over the sweep of history, so-called faithless electors -those who vote for someone other than their state's popular-votewinner -have been exceptionally rare.