Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcc3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcc3!87064023 From: 87064023@sdcc3.UUCP ({|lit) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Electoral college Message-ID: <2583@sdcc3.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 22:05:30 EST Article-I.D.: sdcc3.2583 Posted: Thu Dec 20 22:05:30 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 00:19:49 EST References: <301@bonnie.UUCP> <6782@watdaisy.UUCP> <196@harvard.ARPA> Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center 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). 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.