The Uniform Law Commission has existed since 1892. It is composed of Commissioners appointed by each state, who meet once per year to draft proposed model state laws. All Commissioners must be attorneys. The purpose of the Commission is to help the states pass uniform laws in areas in which uniformity is judged to be useful to the entire nation.
The Commission will spend an hour at its next meeting working on a draft of a proposed state law to force presidential electors to vote for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates chosen by their own state’s political party (or, if an independent presidential candidate carried that state, to force the electors to vote for that independent presidential candidate). The working draft proposes that if an elector votes for someone other than his or her state party’s presidential nominee, that elector is deemed to have resigned; at that point the remaining electors would choose someone new.
The meeting to discuss this idea will be on Sunday morning, July 12, 2009, at the group’s annual meeting, which this year is being held at Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Uniform Law Commission does lets members of the public observe, but not testify. Thanks to Rick Hasen for this news.
Interesting. This appears to be in direct contradiction to the National Popular Vote compact which would require
that the electoral votes of all states in the compact would go to the national popular vote winner.
Uniform definition of Elector.
NONPARTISAN Approval Voting for all elected executive officers and all judges — vote for 1 or more, highest win.
P.R. for legislative body elections.
NO vetoes.
Much too difficult for the Commission ???
Otherwise — How soon before a MONSTER like Augustus Caesar appears from Hell to wipe out ALL election stuff ??? — i.e. back to the Stone Age and tyrants.
Can the juveniles on this list possibly detect how dangerous things are now ??? — especially due to the leftwing / rightwing govt interventions since 1929 in the economy.
Richard,
Please provide more details on the event. I would like to be in the peanut gallery and hear that hour
program. Who do you contact to attend and what is the cost to attend that hour program
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman, American
Independent Party
The Uniform Law Commission webpage is http://www.nccusl.org. The hq is in Chicago at 312-450-6600. The person who is in charge of this particular topic, at the meeting, is Susan Nichols, a North Carolina Deputy Attorney General, whose work number is 919-716-6890.
According to the text on the NCCUSL site the draft states chosen electors but does not specify how they are chosen so it may be that this is because of the nation popular vote movement. They may fear that more electors will rebel and vote with the citizens of their states.
Also the two list will be an added burden on minor parties and independents especially those who need to have the names on the petition forms because often people do not want there name on the form.
On the phone, the authors of the proposal admit that the draft is flawed. They intend to re-do it, first to specify which groups choose candidates for electors (state parties and independent presidential candidates would choose the candidates for elector); and also to specify that the elector candidate’s oath, talking about who wins the presidency, refers to the vote within that particular state, notthe popular vote nationwide.
ALL laws — IF such and such (at at time and place), THEN such and such.
(especially with ALL yes/no possibilities for election law stuff) — to reduce the growing election law CHAOS due to armies of New Age MORON legislators, executive officers and judges.
Lots of nothing? Non Sequitor? Red Herring?
—– Donald Raymond Lake