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From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: what happens if Reagan dies?
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Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 14:16:45 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 29 14:16:45 1984
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Technically, the electors can vote for anyone they wish.  There was even a
recent occasion (1968 I think) when an elector voted differently from the
way he had pledged, and his actual vote counted (but didn't affect the
results).

Electors are supposed to vote the way the voters did in their states, and
sometimes a state has two sets of potential electors so that they can choose
the appropriate set after seeing how their voters have chosen.  And you
though software was kludgy.

And how many states are prepared with four (or whatever) sets of electors?
If software engineers designed programs with as little preparation for unusual
cases as governments do in their laws, the first typo by a data entry clerk
would crash usenet.