托马斯．杰佛逊 (Thomas Jefferson) 于1801年2月17日赢得选举与总统职位

在学校里，你们是分别针对班长与副班长进行两次的投票，还是得到第二高票的人就成为副班长呢？在我们国家选举里，总统与副总统的职位得由选票多寡来决定，但是情况并不是那么简单。

在1801年2月17日，托马斯．杰佛逊赢得美国总统选举，但是在击败对手的同时，却有更多问题发生了。


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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