Tennessee Libertarians are making a coordinated effort to find legislators willing to introduce a bill on ballot access for parties, and hope to have found one by the end of January.
In South Carolina, retired history professor J. David Gillespie is hoping to find a sponsor to repeal the state’s unreasonable ban on write-in candidates for president. South Carolina is the only state that allows write-ins generally (in November elections), yet bans write-ins for president. The state permitted them until 1982.
A ban on write-ins for president is not unreasonable … since the lowly voter does not even cast a vote for president anyway.
The voter, too often unknowing, thanks to the “news” media and the government schools, is voting for a slate of Electors.
Thus the only rational write-in would be for a different slate, not for a single candidate.
35 states provide that a write-in presidential candidate must file a declaration of write-in candidacy, and include a list of presidential elector candidates pledged to him or her. Then, when a voter casts a write-in vote for the presidential candidate, that vote is deemed to be a vote for the slate of presidential electors associated with that presidential candidate.
Thank you,Eric.
That system or procedure would make it reasonable to have a write-in for president.
Perhaps the ideal, though, would be just to abolish the office.