Editing Roger MacBride (section)

===1972 electoral vote===
MacBride was the treasurer of the [[Republican Party of Virginia]] in 1972 and one of the party's electors when [[Richard Nixon]] won the popular vote for his second term as president of the United States.<ref name="faithless">{{cite web | url=http://blogs.roanoke.com/politics/2011/06/13/remembering-virginias-faithless-elector-of-1972/ | title=Remembering Virginia's "faithless" elector of 1972 | work=[[The Roanoke Times]] | date=June 13, 2011 | access-date=July 26, 2012 |author1=Adams, Mason |author2=Sluss, Michael }}</ref> MacBride, however, as a "[[faithless elector]]," voted for the nominees of the Libertarian Party: presidential candidate [[John Hospers]] and vice-presidential candidate [[Tonie Nathan]]. In doing so, MacBride made Nathan the first woman in U.S. history to receive an [[United States Electoral College|Electoral College]] vote.<ref name="Hamowy"/><ref name="faithless"/> Political pundit [[David Boaz]] later commented in ''[[Liberty (1987)|Liberty]]'' magazine that MacBride was "faithless to Nixon and [[Spiro Agnew|Agnew]], anyway, but faithful to the [[United States Constitution|constitutional]] principles Rose Wilder Lane had instilled in him."<ref name="Boaz">Boaz, David "Roger Lea MacBride, 1929–1995", ''[[Liberty (1987)|Liberty]]'', March 1995, p. 13.</ref>