utc wikipedia is not a dictionary it's true that as a purely semantic thing anyone who elects someone while breaking faith with someone else could be called a faithless elector or a traitorous voter or untrustworthy vote caster or any other synonym but as a technical term faithless elector is used to refer to members of the united states electoral college who vote in certain ways so we can have a wikipedia article about faithless electors without discussing that hypothetically there might be some other country somewhere in the world that also uses this term talk april