On April 18, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer signed SB 194. This is the bill to require parties, and independent presidential candidates, to submit twice as many candidates for presidential elector as the state has seats in the electoral college. Half the presidential elector candidates are designated as alternates. If that presidential elector ticket carries the state, and one of the presidential electors votes in December for someone else for President, he or she is deemed to have resigned and to have been replaced by an alternate.

The Commission on Uniform State Laws has been urging all states to pass this idea, but it seems likely that Montana will be the only state to pass it during 2011.