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but this was hilarious.  on the possibility of Kerry winning Ohio anyways in which case he would be well within his rights to retract his upcoming formal concession:

"It'd be perversely charming for John Kerry to flip flop on his concession. :-)" -- [livejournal.com profile] dfilove

unfaithful electors

Date: 2004-11-13 12:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] syntonic-comma.livejournal.com
from The Tyee (http://www.thetyee.ca/News/current/OnesWhoElectPresident.htm):
... what is known as an "unfaithful elector." Only 14 states have penalties for those who do not vote for a candidate on whose slate they appear. So, a majority of the 538 electors can vote for whomever they please.

Only a handful of electors have exercised such power in the past. In 2000, Barbara Lett Simmons, a Democratic elector from the District of Columbia, withheld her vote to protest her city's lack of representation in Congress. The final tally was Bush 271, Gore 266.

In 1988, a West Virginia elector ... deliberately reversed the Democratic ticket, voting Lloyd Bentsen for president and Michael Dukakis for vice-president.

A Washington State elector voted for Ronald Reagan instead of Gerald Ford in 1976, perhaps anticipating the California actor's future popularity. Four years earlier, Virginia elector Roger McBride cast his ballot for John Hospers, the Libertarian candidate.

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