On 3 Nov 2000 14:10:23 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reg Jordan) wrote:
> Each state is not necessarily winner-take-all. Several states permit their
> electoral votes to be split. I believe either Kansas or Nebraska is one of
> those states.
>
> reg
And Reg posted later that Nebraska and Maine aren't winner-take-all.
Further -- actual people who will vote are named as "Electors" by the
party conventions (or, is there variation here?). This is a reward
for being a party stalwart. I remember seeing names of electors on a
ballot, once upon a time. It might be, that I even had to push a
lever for each one in the collection, but that isn't done in
Pennsylvania these days.
The point of mentioning "actual people" is that a willful Elector can
spurn his explicit instructions and vote for someone else. There have
been a couple of straying votes like this, in the last 50 years.
If I remember right: a few states have passed laws describing
criminal penalties, if such a thing occurred among their electors, but
they can't MANDATE the vote; and constitutional scholars doubt
whether those penalties hold up.
--
Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html
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