Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watdaisy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdaisy!ndiamond From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: what happens if Reagan dies? Message-ID: <6782@watdaisy.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 14:16:45 EST Article-I.D.: watdaisy.6782 Posted: Thu Nov 29 14:16:45 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 05:44:46 EST References: <301@bonnie.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 15 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.