The Clarion Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi, has this story about the National Popular Vote Plan movement. One of the most interesting details in this story is an account of what happened in Mississippi in 1944. According to the story, the state Democratic Party convention “secretly” chose presidential elector candidates who were not intending to vote for Franklin Roosevelt, but Senator Harry Byrd. But the “secret” got out, and the Governor called the legislature into special session, and the legislators (all of whom were Democrats) named a different slate of elector candidates for the Democratic Party only a week before the election. The ballots were re-printed to replace the first slate with the newer slate.