CDR: Re: A strange election scenario.
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Wed Nov 8 20:14:48 PST 2000
At 9:57 PM -0500 11/8/00, James B Windle wrote:
>
>--
>
>On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:36:04
> Tim May wrote:
>>
>>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.)
>>
>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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