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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: June 21, 2007, 12:55:42 AM »
« edited: June 21, 2007, 12:57:22 AM by Sen. Ernest »

Yes that's correct.  It's a remnant of the minimal change fix they put in place after the 1800 election.  Prior to that, each elector voted for two people to be President and they were required to name at least one person not from their state.

In the 1792 election, Kentucky's 4 EV's went to Washington and Jefferson, both of Virginia.

Note that under our current system it is conceivable that a candidate could win election as both President and Vice President since the rule does not require that an elector place different names as President and Vice President, if he doesn't live in the same state.   That happened in 2004 when a Minnesota elector chose to vote for John Edwards for both President and Vice President.
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« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2007, 10:52:46 PM »

Actually, I would like to see people vote for individual Electors, instead of blocks of Electors. Each Elector would then cast a vote for two Presidential Candidates, the one receiving a Majority being elected President, the candidate receiving the second most, becomes the Vice President.
Basically, how things were before the 12th Amendment.
Actually, I think there's a case to be made under the one-man one-vote set of cases that electors, if elected by the people instead of selected by the legislature without a popular vote, would have to come from single member districts.  No one's chosen to do that, but I think they'd have an excellent chance of doing so.
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« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2007, 03:36:16 PM »

Actually, I think there's a case to be made under the one-man one-vote set of cases that electors, if elected by the people instead of selected by the legislature without a popular vote, would have to come from single member districts.  No one's chosen to do that, but I think they'd have an excellent chance of doing so.
At-large and multi-member elections are not inherently in violation of the one-man, one-vote decisions.
They can be if they've been found to limit election of minority electors, the same as has been done for other at-large election schemes for all sorts of offices.
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