On March 2, the Arizona Senate Government Reform Committee passed HB 2335. The bill says that vice-presidential nominees should have their names on the November ballot. Currently, Arizona and North Dakota are the only states that don’t print the names of vice-presidential nominees on the ballot.

HB 2335 started out as a bill to delete the names of candidates for presidential elector from the November ballot. Arizona has eleven electoral votes starting in 2012, and if there are six slates on the ballot, for example, that involves printing the names of 66 candidates for presidential elector on the ballot. That takes up a lot of room, and most people would probably think the voters don’t care who the presidential elector candidates are. But, after the bill was introduced, it was amended to leave the presidential elector candidates’ names on the ballot.