At 3:44 PM -0500 11/8/00, James B Windle wrote:

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 11:28:25 Trei, Peter wrote:

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In most states, electoral college electors are bound by law to cast their votes in favor of the candidate who won their state. But not all - in some states (which ones? I don't know) electors can legally vote their conscience. A Libertarian presidential candidate got an electoral vote a while back in this manner.

The electoral college vote you are thinking of was in the 1976 election, a Republican elector from Virginia cast his vote in the electoral college for McBride who was the Libertarian candidate that election. The elector was not a very popular guy with the Republican party but he broke no law.

Actually, MacBride _was_ the elector, in the 1972 election. He ran as the LP candidate in 1976, presumably on account of his 1972 action. (The 1972 was my first election, and I voted for John Hospers, candidate of the very new Libertarian Party.) --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.