James Moyer, Author Whose Book Publicizes that Voters in the Past Could Vote for Individual Presidential Elector Candidates, Creates Website

Posted on by December 16, 2024

James Moyer wrote a book several years ago, explaining to readers that in the past, voters could vote for individual candidates for presidential elector. The book is “Winner-Takes-All: The Secret History of the Electoral College.” By 1984, voters in all states had lost this ability. Vermont and Louisiana had been the last states to let voters cast votes for individual elector candidates.

Now Moyer has put up a webiste about this. See it here. If one goes to the website, one can play a very clear ten-minute youtube that furnishes the information that is in the book.

If ballots still let voters vote for each individual elector candidate, the law on presidential qualifications would be much clearer than it is now. Most states won’t print the names of presidential candidates on their ballots if that candidate doesn’t meet the constitutional qualifications. But if people understood that the true candidates in November are the elector candidates, that policy would change. Back in 1892, when the Prohibition Party nominated a 33-year-old for vice-president, no state kept the ticket off the ballot, and the Prohibition Party was on every government-printed ballot in the nation, except for South Dakota; and the South Dakota omission had nothing to do with the qualifications issue.

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James Moyer, Author Whose Book Publicizes that Voters in the Past Could Vote for Individual Presidential Elector Candidates, Creates Website — 26 Comments

  3. abolish the minority rule ec – one of the many gerrymander systems in the usa/world
    —
    PR
    APPV
    TOTSOP

  9. Also, this creates an incentive for single presidential elector districts so that there could be no argument about “crowded ballots.” And to really do it right, the two bonus at-large electors should have their own physical districts. Yeah, I know everyone will be crying about gerrymandering the districts, but the PE districts need to be distinct from congressional districts so that they only have one PE per prez candidate each. In states with one or two US House districts, it’s easy to do – just divide each in half. Those would be the ones to start with.
    ONE:
    Alaska
    Delaware
    North Dakota
    South Dakota
    Vermont
    Wyoming

    TWO:
    Hawaii
    Idaho
    Maine
    Montana
    New Hampshire
    Rhode Island
    West Virginia

  10. Oops, my bad (haven’t finished my coffee yet this morning); that doesn’t work for the single Congressional district states. Only for the twos.

  11. Maine and Nebraska already choose electors by district, so it would be easy for them to implement the actual election of individual electors. States that elect them at large could use approval voting.

  12. even more 1/2 x 1/2 = 1/4 minority rule GERRYMANDER r-o-t ???

    ABOLISH THE MINORITY RULE EC GERRYMANDER ROT

    NONPARTISAN EXECS/JUDICS VIA APPV— PENDING CONDORCET – RCV DONE RIGHT
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    USA EC = A VESTIGE OF THE OLDE DARK AGE SYSTEM FOR PICKING THE KINGS IN GERMANY AND POLAND IN 1700S.

    NO SURPRISE THAT DARK AGE TRUMP THINKS HE IS A DARK AGE KING — WITH A-L-L LEGIS/EXEC/JUDIC POWERS – A 2025 NEW AGE CAESAR / CZAR / KING / MONARCH — COMPOUNDED BY SCOTUS HACKS IN THEIR JUNK TYRANT OPINIONS

  18. IMO, the electoral college is one one of the great underappreciated features of our Constitution. It allows each state to choose them any way each prefers, and doesn’t even specify a voting method. More states besides Maine and Nebraska should consider alternative methods of choosing electors.

  22. Opposing the electoral college makes someone an ally, fellow traveller or dupe of communists at best, or disloyal and treasonous at worst.

  23. DEMOCRACY = MAJORITY RULE

    MINORITY RULE – LOVED BY TROLL MORON COMMIES/FASCISTS — ESP BAN TROLL MORONS

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