On February 17, the Oklahoma Senate Rules Committee unanimously passed SB 1108, which removes the names of candidates for presidential elector from the November ballot. The only other states that still print the names of presidential elector candidates on the ballot are Arizona, Idaho, North Dakota, and South Dakota. None of those states let voters vote for individual candidates for presidential elector, so the information isn’t very meaningful. The Oklahoma bill says the names of the candidates for presidential elector will be posted at the polling place. Thanks to E. Zachary Knight for this news.
The same committee also passed SB 1016. It provides that the names of qualified parties should no longer be printed on voter registration forms. Instead there would only be a blank line for the question about political party membership. This bill is probably motivated by the desire to avoid having to reprint the voter registration forms every time a new party becomes qualified or ceases to be qualified.
I think the Presidential Electors are supposed to vote according to the majority of the people’s vote in their district/an-or un-bound. The Electors should have no allegiance to anyone more that the people they are representing! I would think giving their names should me mandatory!
This is why the people are starting to wonder about politics, and why the people of Colorado had no say.. Less government is what we need and not people voting for the people.We should do away with all electors and let the peoples vote… The days of old are gone and information sharing is here now….