The National Conference of State Legislatures has posted this useful calendar of when each state’s legislature will come into session in 2017. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
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According to this story, the voters of Idaho chose four presidential electors for the state on November 8, 2016, who included two federal employees. Afterwards this was noticed, and the two electors didn’t show up at the December 19 presidential elector meeting. When electors don’t attend the meeting, they can easily be replaced, and they were replaced in this case. Thanks to Jim Riley for the link.
Texas Representative Mike Schofield (R-Houston) has introduced HB 771, which would require presidential electors to vote for the presidential candidate who won the most popular votes in Texas, and be replaced if he or she failed to do so. See this story.
According to this story, New Hampshire’s State Senate will create a new committee just for election law bills, because there are so many election law bills in the upcoming 2017 session. The New Hampshire already has an election law committee.
Three New Hampshire Republican legislators have introduced HB 231, which would provide that each of the state’s two U.S. House districts would elect their own presidential elector. If this bill had been in effect in the 2016 election, Donald Trump would have received one electoral vote from New Hampshire. Thanks to Darryl Perry for this news.