湯瑪斯‧傑佛遜 (Thomas Jefferson) 於1801年2月17日贏得選舉與總統職位

在學校裡，你們是分別針對班長與副班長進行兩次的投票，還是得到第二高票的人就成為副班長呢？在我們國家選舉裡，總統與副總統的職位得由選票多寡來決定，但是情況並不是那麼簡單。

在1801年2月17日，湯瑪斯‧傑佛遜贏得美國總統選舉，但是在擊敗對手的同時，卻有更多問題發生了。


In your school elections, do you vote for a president and a vice president separately, or does the person with the second highest number of votes become the vice president? In our national elections, electoral voters decide separately to fill the position of president and vice president, but that wasn't always the case.

On February 17, 1801, Thomas Jefferson was elected president of the United States, but there was more to it than beating his opponent.

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