[EL] Kansas ballot

[John Tanner]

Not entirely theoretical -- in 1964 Lyndon Johnson was not ont he ballot in
Alabama.  And then there's the issue of how you count votes for the mixed
slates of pledged and unpledged electors in 1960

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Mark Schmitt <schmitt.mark at gmail.com>wrote:

>  This raises an interesting (although probably theoretical) problem for
> National Popular Vote, doesn't it? If they were to deny Obama a spot on the
> Kansas ballot, it would certainly have no impact on the electoral vote (if
> Obama could win Kansas,he would already be in Reagan/'84 territory.)
>
> But it could have a huge impact on the popular vote. Obama got 515,000
> votes in Kansas in 2008 -- more than the popular vote margin in several
> recent presidential elections.
>
> If a state official could knock a major party candidate off the ballot in
> any one state, it would presumably cripple the NPV process. States that had
> supported the loser would want to break the compact, etc.
>
> I thought the line in the GOP platform that NPV would make "every ballot
> box in every state ... a chance to steal the presidency" was probably the
> single worst argument against NPV imaginable. But if you reframe it as, it
> would give every state election official a chance to steal the presidency,"
> that makes more sense -- if you think that something like Kobach's move is
> really possible. Of course, a state official could also affect the
> electoral college if he removed Obama from the ballot in New York or Romney
> in Texas, but it's obviously more plausible in a state where the candidate
> is very unpopular.
>
>
> On 9/14/2012 12:42 PM, Richard Winger wrote:
>
>
> http://www.ballot-access.org/2012/09/14/kansas-state-officials-suggest-that-president-obamas-name-is-not-certain-to-be-on-ballot/
>
> Richard Winger
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