Sentence examples for committed electors from inspiring English sources

Labour's Mr Mitchell argued that the "awful" polling day weather deterred all but the most committed electors from turning out.

It's bad enough that voters of populous states already get a fraction of the say in national elections enjoyed by those in less populous states; it would add insult to injury if Republican leaders from smaller states that commit electors on a winner-take-all basis winked at foreign tampering that put a finger on the electoral scale in their favor.

The bill, which passed the state's Legislature this summer, was devised by John R. Koza, a computer scientist who envisioned a system in which a series of states holding the number of electoral votes needed to elect a president — 270 — would commit their electors to casting ballots for the winner of the popular vote, regardless of how their individual electorates voted.

9Includes a variety of joint tickets with People's Party electors committed to Bryan.

Instead of choosing a candidate, voters actually choose electors committed to support a particular candidate.

Cummins said "the political aspect of it shouldn't really be a shock to anybody," noting his own status as an active Republican lawyer who served as one of Arkansas's electors committed to Bush in 2000.

Mr. Baker knows as well as anyone that the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature is poised to trash any semblance of justice and fair play by designating its own slate of 25 presidential electors committed to Mr. Bush if, under any scenario, Al Gore wins the popular vote in Florida.

Whether it makes sense to do it depends on who else is doing it," Lessig said, adding that Durie Tangri would be willing to tell electors how many other electors had committed to voting against Trump.

Start a move in your state to abolish the electoral college by committing your state's electors to vote for the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote.

Mr. Leahy noted that in 1961, electors pledged to Richard M. Nixon were replaced by those committed to John F. Kennedy after a recount indicated that Mr. Kennedy had won the state of Hawaii.

Another law passed in August 1786 added a further punishment, making compliance with the law a test for political eligibility by barring anyone who committed a second offense from holding political office or being an elector.