Word: electorate
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...states (Alabama, California, Idaho, Massachusetts, Mississippi and Oregon) have laws instructing electors to vote for the candidate of their party; in the other 42 states, the law is less specific and electors are bound mainly by tradition. As recently as 1948, the tradition was flouted in one instance. Tennessee Elector Preston Parks, though chosen as a Democrat, claimed his constitutional privilege to vote as he pleased. He cast his ballot for States Righter J. Strom Thurmond, and it was so counted...
...which the majority held (5-2) that the Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee has a right to bar from the ballot any candidate for presidential elector who refuses to swear an oath to support the nominees of the Democratic National Convention...