On November 28, many news sources said that Texas Republican presidential elector Art Sisneros, who doesn’t want to vote for Donald Trump, had resigned his position as a presidential elector. But, technically, he can’t do that; there is no provision for resigning.

What he can do is simply fail to appear in Austin on December 19. Presidential electors who don’t come to the meeting are deemed to have resigned, and to be replaced by the other electors. Thanks to Mark Seidenberg and Jim Riley for this information.

Those with a melodramatic imagination may imagine fanciful schemes in which presidential electors are kidnapped or otherwise prevented from attending such meetings.

Brian Sears has compiled the presidential vote so far, for every candidate who got even one write-in. His work is now visible on the web page WaunaKeegan. See it here.

Almost every nationally-organized party that ran a presidential nominee in both 2012 and 2016 received more votes for President in 2016 than in 2012. That is definitely true for the Republican, Libertarian, Green, Constitution, Socialism & Liberation, Socialist Workers, and Prohibition Parties. It will probably be true for the Democratic Party, once all the votes are counted.

The only exceptions are America’s Independent Party, the Socialist Party, and the Socialist Equality Party.