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Subject: Re: Electoral college
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Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 22:05:30 EST
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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).

	There have been a lot of times when an elector voted
differently from the way he had pledged.  The Libertarian party has
received electoral votes at least 3 times (sometimes more that one
vote) and in the 1972 race a Carter delegate voted for Ford.  Teddy
Roosevelt's Bull Moose progressive party received a bunch of
change-overs between the popular election and the EC election.
(they ended up coming in second, with one of the "major" parties
coming in third.)
	Similar things have happened to the Prohibition party and other
significant third parties throughout our history.