CDR: Re: A strange election scenario.

[Tim May]

At 9:57 PM -0500 11/8/00, James B Windle wrote:
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>On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:36:04  
>  Tim May wrote:
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>>Actually, MacBride _was_ the elector, in the 1972 election. He ran as
>>the LP candidate in 1976, presumably on account of his 1972 action.
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>>(The 1972 was my first election, and I voted for John Hospers,
>>candidate of the very new Libertarian Party.)
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>Interesting.  That may be right I remember it happening as I grew up 
>in Virginia but I was pretty sure it must have been 1976 as I didn't 
>think I remembered much about 1972 except Nixon won as I wasn't even 
>a teenager.  A little research didn't help regarding that vote, but 
>there are several other instances of electors voting for other 
>candidates as the elector are not apparently legally bond to vote as 
>they are elected to vote.

Very odd that your "little research" would turn up this list of 
electors who didn't vote as expected but NOT turn up the MacBride 
case: entering "macbride virginia elector" into Google immediately 
turned up numerous hits giving the story.

Weird. Maybe your search engines find obscure tihngs about Adlai 
Stevenson but skip a much more recent election. Even more odd that 
entering "macbride" turned up Stevenson stuff, but not MacBride stuff.

(I'm being facetious of course.)

--Tim May

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