[EL] question regarding Trump replacement on ballot

[Richard Winger]

Generally ballots did show the names of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates on the ballot, along with the names of all the presidential elector candidates.  Voters were permitted to vote for individual candidates for presidential elector, however.  The last state to let voters vote for individual candidates for presidential elector was Vermont, as recently as 1976.
There are still five states that print the names  of the elector candidates on the ballot, but voters can't vote for them individually:  Louisiana, Arizona, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota.
 Richard Winger 415-922-9779 PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147

      From: Jon Roland <jon.roland at constitution.org>
 To: law-election at department-lists.uci.edu 
 Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 8:47 AM
 Subject: Re: [EL] question regarding Trump replacement on ballot
   
  It is a fundamental error to regard the name on the ballot as the electors the voters are actually voting for. Originally, it was the names of the electors that appeared on ballots, not the name of the candidate to which they might be pledged, and they did not have to be pledged to anyone.
 
 States need to go back to the original practice of putting the names of elector candidates on the ballot.
 -- Jon

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