On Being Polite To Men Who Beat Little Girls.

On Being Polite To Men Who Beat Little Girls.


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Fort Pierce Police Chief Sean Baldwin says he believes his officer used the appropriate force when he punched the teenager and then used pepper spray.

Why don't you give Sean Baldwin a call and let him know what you think...

Non-Emergency Phone: 772-465-5770

Send Him an E-mail to: sbaldwin@fppd.org
Fort Pierce Mayor, Robert Benton: 772-461-2200 Ext: 301

~~~/ extract~~~~

I opted for a rather diplomatic and formal request for disclosure via email.

To:Chief Sean Baldwin:

Subject:Shelwanda Riley

Chief Baldwin:

I was told it was one of your officers that i was watching pepper spray a child with whom he was toying in a video on YouTube. Before i make any untoward remarks, i would like to make sure that on the night of October the 14th 2007 a member of your command was involved in the detention/child abuse of Shelwanda Riley, 15.

--
Citizen j in 2008!!

~~~/ bootlicking~~~~
The Browns: Taxation Without Representation

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Dissenting Amerikkka's tax-evading Nor'Easterners, the Browns, finnally get caught with no bloodshed after months of fire-bombless cat and mouse with US Marshalls sent by the Treasury on behalf of the IRS. See, it's good to be rich.

Guess what would happen to you and i should we be so brash?

Probably the same thing. We're all White here, right?

Lethal Skillz, Dj

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Straight Outta Beruit. Pretty blanched.

Bring The Rock

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Office Supply Shrinkage and Meme Vectoring

Hey! Load up a few sheets of your company's Avery 5160 address label stock,
and print these out at work.

Electoral Reform Meme Transmission Via Koan

Musique Meta-Tatio'

One-Handalone ClaPlayer
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Rejoice, Citizen! Both prince and peasants' votes are Equally worthless.

Electoral reform haikuz?

Capital Idea

A taciturn lecture offered as rejoinder in an ongoing dialogue i'm having with our BeltWay Insider. Our story thus far: i have posited that Capital runs the game, and that political movements are more wagging dog than they are bellwethers for change. Civil rights was proffered as an example of a popular movement that changed policy. I pointed out that the Civil War was fought to that end 100 years prior, and was rebuked by an intriguing rejoinder about the echoes of Abolitionism in the current abortion debate. We'll come back to that. Firstly:

So basically, you are refuting the notion that capital interests rule the policy making process from the top down. Now, this isn't just some hair-brained idea of mine, you know. This is, unfortunately, historical fact.

Let's consider the Abolitionists and the Civil War some more.

The Abolitionist movement (along with early versions of the Temperance and Suffrage movements) grew out of Quaker/Shaker and Baptist churches, and although they were vociferous they were in fact outlawed in the South and only given lip service in the North after the Dred Scott descision struck a chord with folks who otherwise didn't care.

Why did it strike a chord? Because it asserted property rights across state lines, a clear problem for states' rights no matter how you slice it.

This is why it was made an issue. Federalism was not quite codified, and all sorts of concessions were being handed to locality as far as right of way and self-determination were concerned. Although the Federal Government had carefully plotted out territories for slave and free states (indicating it's disregard for the issue) settlers had more than once "jumped claim" and lept upon the territory as if the bank wasn't due payment.

This is one of the real issues: homesteaders got an allotment for a stipend, no more, and the territories were already determined. But the settlers would change rules at whim, the ingrates, as if self-determination were the founding principle of the country. Add to this the Southern Aristocracy's marked difference of opinion on the matter of centrism/Federalism, and you have your issue. What drove the war ideologically was the need to resolve the power of the Federal Government as supreme, once and for all. What enabled it and caused the other shoe to drop was ENCLOSURE. Remember the Cotton Gin? This is a modification of the wool mill used in Britain. No big whoop, despite what you may have heard, and whitney went broke in the 1790's without it really doing much. It was one of the loci of Northern industrial concentration, a process very much like Britain's industrial "revolution." This process requires agrarian aristocracy to migrate off of the land, so the land can be repurposed both in utility and in titlage, allowing the leverage of parcel valuation as Capital. Capital Aristocracy is of course the successor; a class of gentry whose wealth is the dictate by which they rule, separate from the land and it's sullen marginless stasis. The Northern industrial elite already understood this, having direct capital ties to Europe, where the process had already spawned the Enclosures, with ensuing dislocation, famines, Dickensian factories, workhouses and mines and slums of the 17 - 1800's.

Capital does make up the issues. Where else would anyone get the idea that "feeding Africa" is something that can be done from the outside, or indeed that Africa is starving in the first place? Is it famine or enclosure killing people in Darfur? In Ethiopia we hear of famine and draught; yet the largest lake in Africa sits at it's heart, and this is a nation so old it dates to dynastic Egypt. It has irrigation; indeed it has quite a few resources, and is able to invade Somalia regularly. So why can't the ethnic herders get water? Is it perhaps because they can't pay for it?

Westerners are uninformed, naive somehow? I am here to tell you this is not true. We know exactly how evil we are, and we justify it by saying "better them than US" before "accidently" allowing warlords to usurp UNICEF monies. Those Suzuki jeeps don't ship themselves over there from NYC impound lots, it's strickly COD.

/ lecturette.

Extra credit: compare and contrast the states' rights issues involved Slavery vs Abolitionism against those of Pro-Choice vs Pro-Life. Explain how the logical outcome of this wlll be determined by Capital.

Goto Cryptome, now.
You won't be able to soon. That's a bad thing.

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Six Articles of Impeachment for Richard B Cheney

from Wil S. Hylton and GQ


Here's an email from the "movement":

INVITE ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY! Earlier this week our legislators in WA STATE refused to put an impeachment bill to a vote because they didn't think that's what the people of WA state want! This decision was made for you despite an unprecedented amount of phone calls, emails, and snail mail the legislatures received from all of us supporting the impeachment bill!! Show the people of WA STATE and those whose job it is to REPRESENT us what a powerful presence we are and the thousands and thousands who support the IMPEACHMENT issue!!

We will be organizing for the April 28th Impeach Day on Sunday April 21st! We need your imput! Do something to make real change happen on this EARTH DAY!!

We would like people to 'adopt' overpasses and bring large IMPEACH! signs and be at their assigned overpasses between 1:00pm and 4:00pm on April 28th. World Can't Wait will be on the 45th and 50th St (in the University District) I-5 overpasses that day! Then at 5:00 pm we will be on the North and South side of SAFECO FIELD handing out IMPEACH! balloons! (Please note; the manufacturer states that these are BIODEGRADABLE 100% natural latex balloons)

We will happily advertise your involvement on our website;
http://www.seattleworldcantwait.org/
and what overpass you'll be at this coming week and include a link to your group's website if you have one, or just list you and your friends if that's what you'd like. Please email us at seattle@worldcantwait.org or better yet;

Please come to our regularly scheduled Sunday meeting;
Sunday, April 21st, 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Trinity United Methodist Church
3rd Floor Fireside Room
6512 23rd Ave NW
in Ballard

BE COURAGEOUS- invite everyone you know! Want some talking points to discuss with friends and family on this issue? Try these on;

Why should Bush and Cheney be driven out and IMPEACHED?
Here are just a few of the high crimes and misdemeanors the Bush Adminstration has committed;

*Pre-emptive War based on lies in violation of Nuremburg Principles
*Repeal of Habeas Corpus in violation of the constitution, common decency and civilized society
*Codified and committed Torture through the Military Commissions Act in violation of the Geneva Conventions
*Conducted kidnappings aka 'extraordinary rendition' and now detains over 16,000 people w/o charges and is currently setting up facilities to house 40,000 more in violation the Geneva Conventions
*No-bid contacts given to cronies who over-charged, performed poorly, and have 'lost' millions of dollars of taxpayer money; pure corruption
*Fraudulent elections in violation of the 15th ammendment
*600% increase in terrorism worldwide; shameful incompetence
*Created massive federal debt while giving tax cuts to the wealthy and cutting social services; shameful corruption
*Worked in concert with fundamentalist religious groups to make policy changes and laws in violation of the 1st ammendment
*Spying on American citizens without warrants in violation of the 4th ammendment
*Created the John Warner Defense Act, a portion of which nullifies the Posse Comitatus Act and thereby allows the military to use force against American citizens

And so many more high crimes and misdemeanors that they cannot all be listed here, with no doubt as to the many more as yet unknown crimes that an intensive impeachment investigation would discover.

Our democracy is crumbling! It's time to get out and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT WHILE WE STILL CAN!!

ATTEND THESE EVENTS, and if you CANNOT ATTEND for whatever personal reasons then please DONATE GENEROUSLY! The Seattle World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime needs funds for the contant flyering we do, and the monthly maintainence of our office, website, and phone. To donate please send a check to; "WCW/AGJ" in subject line please include "Seattle WCW" and mail your generous check to;
2442 NW Market St
PO Box #555
Seattle WA 98107.

Hope to see you tomorrow and on the 28th!
World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime, Seattle Chapter


-end remission-

'K. First, tomorrow's the 22nd. They did send a correction email, so let's ignore that.

BUT WHAT THE FUCKEDY COCK IS UP WITH ALLCAPS AND EXCLAIMATIONS!!!

It's not as if this wasn't generated by a script; the "WA STATE" insertion in triplicate is a give away that this was templated. Which then makes the hyperbolic "unprecedented emails" claim glare with cynical offalism, a shiney turd bobbing nauseatingly adrift in the toddler's bedpan of that opening paragraph. So someone made a template, with the wrong date, formulated for failure, and decided the inflection of summertime chatroom was the stylistic element needed to motivate the masses.

Nice. I love activism. Makes me feel like i'm in the company of reasonable adults. Always has.

I guess i'll drop a sign off of Dravus overpass, maybe. Maybe show up at the Ballard meeting just to be counted as a potential 5th columnist. No worries, Big Bro; the other 4 are MIA.



I ripped all of anti-tenure patriarch Nels' vids and stuck 'em into the media blender that is Brightcove. This is one for you fellow media propagationistaz to keep an eye on, being as it's true Web 2.0. Flash feeds with syndication controls and ad-space hooks to make the medium massage the media into mass-media message space. Ideally. No offers yet, but i tweaked the tags a bit tonight so...we'll see.

This is why i'll be doing some form of public pro-impeachment prostitution tomorrow. Concerned Citizens are duty-bound to carry the news of the day until the newspapers do.

Those of us who care too much go the extra mile
to tell you what we make you think.
Close your eyes and count to 100, please.

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Helmet - Wilma And Betty

Congressional Tenure and The Death Of Sri Lenny

Tro' Da Bums Out!

Tenure Corrupts
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America, stop fucking around.

Look, if you're not going to own your vote in the presidential election, which you don't seem to want to do, you're going to have to attack the cycle of aristocratic carreerism that perpetuates the corrupt cronyism of American One-Two Party Politics™ at the Legislative level. The logic of term limits is undeniable. Allowing Federal legislators to pursue careers makes them into politicians instead of statesmen. It turns a civic duty into a mealticket. It provides a throne for dynastic ambition, and makes those who sit upon it more concerned with maintaining the position than actually doing their job, thus they use the power of the position to insure thier continued tenure. This paradoxically engenders both partisan polemics and centrist infidelity, as the career politicians seek to curry the favor of current idealogue pundits while maintaining a status-quo of overall inaction.

All of this would change if the prize of re-election was removed. Mandating limits of 1 term for Senators and 3 for Representatives would allow 6 years for the office holder to concentrate on doing the job they were elected to do while removing the means to perpetuate careerism.

It's Common Sense.

Look at your "representatives". They have betrayed all the popular interests that put the there, both Democrat and Republican. The war drags on, with no end in sight. The borders remain open, the immigration reform promised to the GOP is bogged down in endless committee. Carl Rove remains free to dance the Cabbage Patch at whim. Marriage is still open to interpretive legislation by individual states, and social security remains on the "to-do" list with the rest of the buerocratic bungles and unsorted piles of red tape that pass for government agencies. This "to-do" list will continue to grow, since it provides an endless source of talking points and strawman pillaries while justifying continued funding of commitees, study groups and programs purporting to be "solutions".

New lamps for old, full of the same snake-oil that stunk up the place with obscuring clouds of black smoke to begin with.

Throw the bums out.


Sri Lenny
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P J Harvey - Rid of Me

Truth™

One-Handalone ClaPlayer

WTC 7 - Audit that, biotchesez!!!


Candidate's comment to Popular Mechanics:
I think Canada did it to take our attentions away from their assumption of Bechtel's bid-list; and although i would like to believe that Pop Mechanics' armchair CSI is plausible as much as i would the standard Truther™ fable (that Dubya and his Illuminati freinds used alien C4), niether get my timeslice. I require hard lab forensics, and you both have missed the option for an actual inquiry by years.

All the evidence is gone.

So, only speculative sleuthing is left.

Start with motive.
I'd put Kaliph S Moha' as prime suspect at this point; he's the one with a stated threat AND a prior attempt. 9-11 would have been a successful life's work for him. However, his cabal wasn't particularly good at IT (International Terrorism), being moled out in the 90's; he's no Jackal.

Ideologues are the exception among criminal masterminds, though. Most are just greedy. Thus the next most likely suspect is a profile familiar in New York; an inspecific slumlord, one who has a partner who's into development and another in demolitions, maybe another in industrial scrap. Remember, the bullion in the basements was moved out too.
Next would be Haliburton, for real; even a 5th grader could see by the time tower 2 came down that we were going to war with Iraq, and that meant a cash payoff for our usual suspects in war profiteering.

I'm sure a couple more cabals could be reasonably suspected prior to adding our Sunni allies in Afganistan to the list of criminally motivated, and without a money trail i really don't see them motivated enough to spend as much as was required to train, inject and house the agents here who pulled it off.

First, follow the money. Who benifits? The benificiary or Bin Laden? How much cash is being/has been spread around as opposed to lump-sum dropped on particular companies involved in the properties affected?

I mean, IF you want to get at an answer. If you just want to bitch about a bitch's demand for a real investigation and give the rest of us no real meat from EITHER camp, do by all means keep playing the 9-11 Truth™ Game with the conspiracy crowd.

I know I sure love it. It's refreshing to have so many people in the country around me dance around the real issues and throw shit at each other.

No wonder we still have the electoral college embarassment...

/C_j's comment

Oh, do let's all jump on the lesbian for actually talking about a politically pertainant issue.


Gloria Stienem: GynaGatekeeper


W/E. I'm telling you, drop it. Time's wasting, and there's no aliens coming to give you more.


Simian Suffrage?

The Dems will put a woman or a black up. This will give you a Republican president in 2008, even if the popular vote disagrees. Congress will allow Dubya's agenda to play out, since that's what Congress does is facilitate the ruling cabal's agenda.

Unless you limit their terms.


Tro' Da Bums Out!

Tenure Corrupts

Disappearings

A Hung'i Ghost Spooktacular: Recent Dis-Re-Appearrerings America: What's Going Down? code:<center><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4x5Th99-cf4"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4x5Th99-cf4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x5Th99-cf4#omtkrVdM5Fg" target="new">America: What's Going Down?</a></center> Halifaxion Memorial code:<center><object width="530" height="370"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/878B4B2F3069B9EC"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/p/878B4B2F3069B9EC" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="530" height="370"></embed></object><br>Halifaxion Memorial<br></center>

TheirTube contact and Cj_08 alias BobForehead (aka yours truly) notices the absence of a long-time subscription, Halifaxion, thanks commentary on a vid posted fromorangefu. Halifaxion, aka belowgroundsurface, is/was a Truther Extreme; a devotee to the myth of 9-11 as he sees/saw it. This is most probably why i didn't note his passing, since i didn't even have a 9-11 playlist per-se until i created the above Memorial.

Contained in this irreverent but sincere memorial to a seemingly dissapeared prophile are a number of invective attacks by battim, who seems to have cool tattoos but whom supports Chomsky and so should also be ridiculed some.

{Just because Chomsky and i share the shellshocked side of the Palestinian situation doesn't mean he's not a gatekeeper. He sets the tone for US Leftism™, which he purposefully keeps in the intellectual sphere; his prescription is inaction and a suscription to Utne Reader. Both are wrong.}

When i was but a wee-rabble rouser i latched onto the fact that certain powerful circles of money and influence overlapped and daisychained a poisonous ring-around-the-rosey that spanned centuries and spawned death, inequality and injustice of the meanest varieties. By the time i was a university Junior i had given up the ease of nebulous conspiracies and found a common seed-germ for this System of syndicates within our Systems, the nexus with name.

Banking. In specific, Llyodd's of London and it's unnamable syndicate of silent partners. The Dutch West India Company and it's British counterpart are the most obvious transnationals of the former class. Note that both of these corporations outlive thier charters and are dissolved under Chapter 11-ish circumstances.

This is the way corporations have always been subsumed back into the fabrice of the aristocracy who hold controlling shares. Regardez vous Haliburton's recent dissolution of KBR.

The conspiracy is real; but it doesn't lie in an Illuminatti plot by aliens to turn us all into Verichipped solent green. Yes, there are times when the families who currently hold the ball(s) work in concert to devastation effect: The European Enclosure and more notably the creation of fascist regimes during interwar 20th century's socialist awakening. Enabling Franco and Hitler to stop workers from transforming Europe into the jewel Internacional was sick, petty, wasteful, shortsighted, dull and inhumane to the point of sociopathy. Personally i'd wager that Lenin had the backing of the Monarchist-Capitalists as well, since he hadn't read Marx well enough to know that a socialism needs a democratic footing in a fully industrialized economy. His Bolshevik bullshit has fucked socialists for a good 100 years by association. However, this latter add-on of mine has one tiny flaw.

It's not a matter of public record, unlike Britain and the United States' funnelling of cash to the proto-Reich to thwart trade-union socialism.

As soon as Hitler became an issue we can see where the global conspiracy looses it's giest, becoming a phantom of itself. Britain had to wait for the US aristocracy to want war bad enough to allow Pearl Harbor for us to STOP aiding and abbetting the Third Reich. We kept cranking those Krupverks Special Orders out of New Jersey full knowing they were sinking allied ships under Her Majesty's flag in the North Sea until we were actually served papers by the German Embassy.

Hell, Prescott Bush kept trading with Der Fuehrer until injunctions were served on the companies of his that were involved. War profitteers are fey to close up shop when a war is on; it's like being a chimneysweep who takes fall and winter off. Even a commie like me understands that.

So the unity of purpose that kept the Czar propped up longer than healthy kept pressing the "react" button like a junkie on a morphine drip, fomenting the sickest kind of nationalist ethnic zenophobia-as-political-agenda across Europe, schisming the lowest 2/3 of the population against itself in an effort to prevent a people's movement.

This is what the Atlantic Cabal does. This is what we're doing in the mid-east, the US and Britain, protecting Dutch and British investments in the area by attempting to keep the Ottoman Schism of Persia and the Arab Schism of themselves from unifying (again). We are in Iraq, the poorest country resource-wise per acre in the area, NOT to gain resources. Again, the conspiracy Doppler shifts itself into a ghost of a shadow; we see only war profiteers and thier money-men making good on this. The Bush family is once again aiding and abetting, but not in a profitable way. Former British holding Haliburton has used the past 6 years to complete it's metamorphosis into a full transnationalist, now free to settle where it's own cabal can enjoy fewer taxes. Shell oil has benifitted along with thier Dutch owners, and British Petroleum has managed to sink it's teeth into the Alaskan Reserve while we puzzled at losing control of two (2) major pipelines (Alaska and our Unical Miracle pipe from Uzbek to Turkey).

Follow the money and see how these sometimes collaborative cartels and cabals are NOT a unified Illuminati, even if they do all go to Ivy League schools to polish thier inhumanity off with law degrees. They were, at one point, all Masons, too. So's my dad. So's my uncle.

My father and namesake uncle are NOT two men to have in the same room at the same time. They are NOT a unified Brotherhood. My uncle was/is a few ranks below my dad, but his business inclinations allowed him to no doubt make better use of the network the Masons had to offer; he retired early, a millionaire.

My dad, whom i take after, is either dead or still working and living hand to mouth, working class style: because that is what we workers do.

Unless you've got a healthy coat of the Lazies like me, they'll work you to death, Mason or no. Why? Because it's money that is the main-god, the mantra, the whip that drives the future.

See, there IS no Lucifer
or YHWH or Allah
or Maha Devi Kali Maa (Jai Jai, i kid)
or Gray aliens or Mayan Ant-Serpent-Fairies
or what the fuck EVER you think it is
that They™ are in cohoots with
in order to gain control of your precious pink panties.
Turns out that the rich just do it for the money,
and that they already have your pink panties because
you're so busy being lazy
and blaming the Illuminati/Islamofascists/your parents
that you traded them away a long time ago.

You support Them™ with every purchase. You know this; why do you litterally buy into it?

Labor Value
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So there's that.

Then there's why i felt the need to get up-ons Against Conspiracies. Turn that gun on myse'f, half-cocked. Let's talk of disappearances, half-truths and outright lies; govenment projects and tripping over the outline on the doorstoop.

I've been dredging NASA/JPL for audio files again.


Facial Cues and Voice Synthesis

Granted, the space agencies have MASSIVE amounts of data to host on limited server space. So i don't expect all three hours of any given auroral event, or the complete Mars Mike hash. (the first Mars Mike was lost, second got funding whacked, so that's a bad example-i just like the project's name) However, when they pull files that are only 1 meg at most, i wonder. When it happens again and again, and certain types of data are pulled, i start digging.

Orbiter Gravity - Radio Saturn
 
 
New Moons for Saturn - Voyager Hits Termination Shock

One doesn't just do space silent, you know. NASA's Reverb Tank For Human Factors Research is modeled on an actual room. They don't neccesarily keep everything all tidy either, which yeilds some nifty treasure rooms.


Cassini Takes new Pics of Saturn's Hexagonal North Pole

The goal is to find all of the files involvingVoyager hitting the heliopause. The originally released one is gone; i have a copy if anyone wants to hear the Space Frogs.

BTW, i'm not sure what NASA and the EAU are hiding by dissapearing the files that they do, but i have a theory. It's not UFO's.

Alright, get serious. Show some damn respect for the only other sane activist in Amerikkkuh.

T'row Da Bumz Out!!!

Tenure Corrupts
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New Moon B0t'P0liticae With Paranti & West

RIP Sri Tanya Reinhart.

Trendio fascism futures
from a F4nB0t of Democracy.

5 strokes for 1 "Truth".
That's us monkeys for you.


H4zz1K4sT
My V1d30 D0kt0r
Suryu has been busy some.

Cornel West
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Bush's War Machine
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Parenti Guidance
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Give Riley a Vote. Direct Democracy Now.


Or i'll start making disinfo'mo' again.








N3st - Juliz Education

Elevated Blood, Alcohol

I wish i still drank sometimes.


Drunken Fist, Sober Beavers.

Nothings tears out the social aspect of one's life quicker than not having an excuse to meet everyone at the local dunk-and-plunck. I used to love going to Katie's in San Jose, or Bernard's on Seneca here in Seattle.

I still talk to as many people as i can stand, though. Since i stopped driving things became simpler, and mulching my phone this winter caused a serindipetous ceasation of casual irritation. Now i find my self in a place where i wonder why the fuck i still live in a city with people. American people.

Good lord, America, look at yourself. How droll. How boring, how cheap and unsophisticated yet overpriced. How sexless and vague, how fixated on your apparent roguishness while jumping at shadows.

How broken.


Frodzjette KL has started a PNAC opposing the new viaduct.
My kitten is down with Mayor Nickles, sigh.

This is why my little campaign fails to get anything more than the occasional wavering "oooo, i don't know; the Red Staters/Democrats will take over". Every person i've cornered on the idea of a direct democracy is frightened, scared of thier peers.

You don't trust yourselves, and with good reason. You would rather continue to let the aristocracy rule you like feudal barons than face up to owning your country's decisions. You look up to them, as if they are not only smarter than you but actually people of vision and compassion as well. Not one US politition i see today has anything like a vision. None of them want to make things more democratic, egalitarian, or even livable.


Let me predict the next Presidential tally for you.

None. Not your precious Nader, or Clinton, or Clark, or Obama, or Gingrich, or Robertson, or anybody else. They don't even have the courage to fake a vision, because they don't need to. You allow them to rule, since it's better than the "other guy", even though it's plainly obvious that they're the same. Yale is Yale is Yale is not your Alma Mater, right?

Elevate Me.

click to D/L PromoInfoPetition PDF - "Common Sense"

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So i'm going to get local for a little bit. I'm going to try to draw the picture for you of the microcosmic, the community unit that forms the building blocks of aquiescence and greed that America is built out of. This is applicable to any "market economy democratic state", which i know you like to think you live in. You don't; you live in an oligopoly cleptocracy. You're probably in the US, Britain, India, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, New Zealand or Austrailia and thus this is true. Get used to it. (If you're not, would you like a houseguest?)

If it wasn't for the railroad and Ma Bell balancing out the industrial-military we'd all be in the sugar mines already. It's a tenuous ballance though, since the other two could be imminant domained in times of war.

The Seattle skyline obscures one of the Emerald city's many gifts to the Northwest, the exposed flank of First Hill known as Yestler Terrace. Yestler Terrace is a low-income project, built sprawl style like reservation housing. Little pink ticky-tacky. This is a 100-fold improvement on the projects that used to line the street in the early days, when logs would use it as a final slide down to the timber yards and port in what is now Pioneer Square.

This was Skid Row. Never has a more obiquitous term come from the disgusting propensity of the rich to hold the working class hostage to rape the land denied them. The Company Store as municipality, this was Seattle. Like Mattewan. Like...


...we could go on for a while there.


Then, the city burned down. Go figure.





The vicious "visionary" city engineer who decided to level a massive fucking hill that was already occupied certainly didn't have any vested interests in the project, it's outcome, or line his pockets with graft from contracting the project.

Time passes. A new cabal follows the interceeding Selig years, which yeilded the Columbia Tower and King Dome.

We'll do the stadium arena dance later. Let's flash to now, when the pressing concern is the two tiers of traffic running the length of Western Street on downtowns waterfront. The Viaduct was retrofitted in 1998-9, and immediatlely tested by an earthquake which proved my theory about rehabilition of masonry: No matter how much you splint and bandaid a concrete or massonry structure it will NOT reknit like bone.

Makes sense, since it's not.

So now it's a Cypress commuter-press waiting to happen, waiting for that next good snap along the rift that tore the hole known as Puget Sound in the planets crust. It stalks drivers and tourists with 6 lanes of cracked concrete and rusting steel, waiting for the right day. To replace it, the interveining 7 years have seen Safco Field built, which is delightfully paradoxical but limited in scope for an inter-urban thruway. Mayor Greg Nickles wants a tunnel, while Gov. Christine Gregoire wants the Sonics to have thier new stadium. She also favors a new viaduct, since state matching funds will be used being as it's a state highway arterial, connecting 99 and 405 through downtown.

We were asked our advisory ballotted opinions, and we said build a monorail and no more stadiums. So they wasted a bunch more money studying that Simpsons episode with the monorail, then mysterious breakdowns happened on the existing monorail, which had run as an elevated rail from downtown to the Center since the World's Fair.

It was interesting that no one said anything as the project died in '05. It's still pulling money from the tax levies as i type. Be sure they won't be used for the viaduct or stadium in Renton, on Boeing land.

Why does Mr Mayor want a tunnel?

Greg's Plan to Nickle and Dime Seattle

It's called Denny Triangle now.

I'm sure he has his reasons.


My fave local tag, in lieu of the planned
RealMedia video from the Seattle Channel.

State Electoralismiasmae, Compend't

What we have here is

The Only Online Compendium
of US State Laws Governing
Presidential Electoral Procedure.

That's right.
We bad.
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Electoral Procedure by State, Terminal.

No Legal Requirement - Electors in these States are not bound by State Law to cast their vote for a specific candidate:
PENNSYLVANIA - 21 Electoral Votes 
RHODE ISLAND - 4 Electoral Votes
SOUTH CAROLINA - 8 Electoral Votes
State Pledge / State Law -(Replacement and criminal sanctions for violation.) § 7-19-80

SECTION 7-19-70. Election of presidential electors; certificates of appointment.
Unless otherwise provided, the election of presidential electors shall be conducted and the returns made in the manner prescribed by this chapter for the election of state officers.
The names of candidates for electors of President and Vice President nominated by any political party recognized in this State under Section 7-9-10 or by a valid petition shall be filed with the Secretary of State but shall not be printed on the ballot. In place of their names, in accordance with the provisions of Section 7-13-320, there shall be printed on the ballot the names of the candidates for President and Vice President of each political party recognized in this State and the names of any petition candidates for President and Vice President. A vote for the candidates named on the ballot shall be a vote for the electors of the party by which those candidates were nominated or the electors of petition candidates whose names have been filed with the Secretary of State.
Upon receipt of the certified determination of the Board of State Canvassers and delivered to him in accordance with Section 7-17-300, the Secretary of State, under his hand and the seal of his office, as required by Section 7-17-310, shall certify to the Governor the names of the persons elected to the office of elector for President and Vice President of the United States as stated in the certified determination, who shall be deemed appointed as electors.
It shall be the duty of the Governor, as soon as practicable after the conclusion of the appointment of the electors pursuant to the laws of the State providing for the election and appointment of the electors, to communicate by registered mail under the seal of the State to the Administrator of General Services a certificate of appointment of the electors, setting forth the names of the electors and the canvass or other ascertainment under the laws of this State of the number of votes given or cast for each person for whose appointment any and all votes have been given or cast. It shall also thereupon be the duty of the Governor to deliver to the electors of the State, on or before the day on which they are required by law to meet, six duplicate originals of the same certificate under the seal of the State. If there shall have been any final determination in the manner provided for by law of a controversy or contest concerning the appointment of all or any of the electors, it shall be the duty of the Governor, as soon as practicable after the determination, to communicate under the seal of the State to the Administrator of General Services a certificate of such determination.
SECTION 7-19-80. Candidate for elector shall declare for which candidates he will vote; elector shall vote for candidates for whom he declared.
Each candidate for presidential and vice-presidential elector shall declare which candidate for president and vice-president he will vote for if elected. Those elected shall vote for the president and vice-president candidates for whom they declared. Any person selected to fill a vacancy in the electoral college shall vote for the candidates the elector whose place he is taking had declared for. The declaration shall be made to the Secretary of State on such form as he may require not later than sixty days prior to the general election for electors. No candidate for president and vice-president elector shall have his name placed on the ballot who fails to make such declaration by the prescribed time. Any elector who votes contrary to the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of violating the election laws of this State and upon conviction shall be punished according to law. Any registered elector shall have the right to institute proper action to require compliance with the provisions of this section. The Attorney General shall institute criminal action for any violation of the provision of this section. Provided, the executive committee of the party from which an elector of the electoral college was elected may relieve the elector from the obligation to vote for a specific candidate when, in its judgment, circumstances shall have arisen which, in the opinion of the committee, it would not be in the best interest of the State for the elector to cast his ballot for such a candidate.
SECTION 7-19-90. Meeting of electors; organization; balloting and certification of results.
The electors for President and Vice President shall convene at the capitol, in the office of the Secretary of State, at eleven in the forenoon, on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December next following their appointment, and shall proceed to effect a permanent organization by the election of a president and secretary from their own body. The electors shall next proceed to fill by ballot and by plurality of votes all vacancies in the electoral college occasioned by the death, refusal to serve, or neglect to attend, of any elector. The electors shall then and there vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves.
The electors shall make and sign six certificates of all the votes given by them for President and Vice President, each of which certificates shall contain two distinct lists, one of the votes for President and the other for Vice President, and shall annex to each of the certificates one of the lists of the electors which shall have been furnished to them by the Secretary of State by direction of the Governor. The electors shall seal up separately the certificates and lists of the electors so made by them, and certify upon each that the list of all the votes of the State given for President, and of all of the votes given for Vice President are contained therein.
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No Legal Requirement - Electors in these States are not bound by State Law to cast their vote for a specific candidate:
SOUTH DAKOTA - 3 Electoral Votes 
TENNESSEE - 11 Electoral Votes 
TEXAS - 34 Electoral Votes 
UTAH - 5 Electoral Votes

VERMONT - 3 Electoral Votes
State Law - title 17, § 2732

TITLE 17
Elections
CHAPTER 57. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

§ 2721. Nomination of presidential electors
In presidential election years, presidential electors for major political parties shall be nominated at the party platform convention held pursuant to this title. Electors for all other presidential candidates shall be nominated pursuant to subchapter 3 of chapter 49 of this title. (Added 1979, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 6, 1980.)
§ 2722. Certification of nominees for electors
After adjournment of the platform convention of a major political party, the chairman and secretary of the convention shall promptly execute a sworn statement certifying the names, towns of residence, and correct mailing addresses of the persons nominated by the convention to serve as electors, and shall promptly file the statement with the secretary of state, along with the written consent of each person to be a nominee for elector. (Added 1979, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 6, 1980.)
§ 2731. Certificates of election
When the canvassing board provided for in section 2592 of this title meets, it shall issue its certificates of election, with respect to the presidential election, to the electors nominated by the party whose candidate for president has received the greatest number of votes. (Added 1979, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 6, 1980.)
§ 2732. Meeting of electors
The electors shall meet at the state house on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December next following their election, to vote for president and vice-president of the United States, agreeably to the laws of the United States. If there is a vacancy in the electoral college on that day, occasioned by death, refusal to act, neglect to attend, failure of a person elected to qualify, or for other cause, the other electors present shall at once fill such vacancy viva voce and by a plurality of votes. When all the electors appear or a vacancy therein is filled, the electors shall perform the duties required of them by the constitution and laws of the United States. If a vacancy occurs and is filled as aforesaid, the electors shall attach to the certificate of their votes a statement showing how such a vacancy occurred and their action thereon. The electors must vote for the candidates for president and vice-president who received the greatest number of votes at the general election. (Added 1979, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 6, 1980.)

Curiously, Vermont's electoral law goes on too long for me to swallow that last binding edict. The top ten list is now a top 15, maybe.

Let's push on.

VIRGINIA - 13 Electoral Votes
State Law - (Virginia statute may be advisory - "Shall be expected" to vote for nominees.)§ 24.1-162

24.2-202. Electors for President and Vice President.
The qualified voters of the Commonwealth shall choose the Commonwealth's electors for President and Vice President of the United States at the general election in November 1996, and every fourth year the
The qualified voters of the Commonwealth shall choose the Commonwealth's electors for President and Vice President of the United States at the general election in November 1996, and every fourth year thereafter. Each voter shall vote for a number of electors which equals the whole number of senators and representatives to which the Commonwealth at that time is entitled in the Congress of the United States.

§ 24.2-203. Convening of electors; filling vacancies; how electors required to vote.
The electors shall convene at the capitol building in the capital city of the Commonwealth at 12:00 noon on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December following their election. Those electors present shall immediately fill, by ballot and by a plurality of votes, any vacancy due to death, failure or inability to attend, refusal to act, or other cause. When all electors are present, or the vacancies have been filled, they shall proceed to perform the duties required of such electors by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
Electors selected by the state convention of any political party as defined in § 24.2-101 shall be required to vote for the nominees of the national convention to which the state convention elects delegates. Electors named in any petition of qualified voters as provided in § 24.2-543 shall be required to vote for the persons named for President and for Vice President in the petition.

An Even more specious set of instructions for electors and voters wishing to get counted. I like the indy party/petition coalition provision, though.
No Legal Requirement - Electors in these States are not bound by State Law to cast their vote for a specific candidate:
WEST VIRGINIA - 5 Electoral Votes

Here's where i was pushing: the last of the official "not bound" list, states in which electoral practice is admittedly unfettered by a requirement of democratic resonance.

Let's bring 'em out again folks!

ARIZONA - 10 Electoral Votes ARKANSAS - 6 Electoral Votes DELAWARE - 3 Electoral Votes GEORGIA - 15 Electoral Votes IDAHO - 4 Electoral Votes ILLINOIS - 21 Electoral Votes INDIANA - 11 Electoral Votes IOWA - 7 Electoral Votes KANSAS - 6 Electoral Votes KENTUCKY - 8 Electoral Votes LOUISIANA - 9 Electoral Votes MINNESOTA - 10 Electoral Votes	MISSOURI - 11 Electoral Votes NEW HAMPSHIRE - 4 Electoral Votes NEW JERSEY - 15 Electoral Votes NEW YORK - 31 Electoral Votes NORTH DAKOTA - 3 Electoral Votes PENNSYLVANIA - 21 Electoral Votes RHODE ISLAND - 4 Electoral Votes SOUTH DAKOTA - 3 Electoral Votes TENNESSEE - 11 Electoral Votes TEXAS - 34 Electoral Votes UTAH - 5 Electoral Votes WEST VIRGINIA - 5 Electoral Votes
Total Votes Up For Grab:	257
Majority Needed to Elect:	270

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WASHINGTON - 11 Electoral Votes
Party Pledge / State Law -($1000 fine.)§§ 29.71.020, 29.71.040, Supp.
RCW 29A.56.320
Nomination -- Pledge by electors -- What names on ballots -- How counted.
In the year in which a presidential election is held, each major political party and each minor political party or independent candidate convention held under chapter 29A.20 RCW that nominates candidates for president and vice president of the United States shall nominate presidential electors for this state. The party or convention shall file with the secretary of state a certificate signed by the presiding officer of the convention at which the presidential electors were chosen, listing the names and addresses of the presidential electors. Each presidential elector shall execute and file with the secretary of state a pledge that, as an elector, he or she will vote for the candidates nominated by that party. The names of presidential electors shall not appear on the ballots. The votes cast for candidates for president and vice president of each political party shall be counted for the candidates for presidential electors of that political party.

[2003 c 111 § 1425. Prior: 1990 c 59 § 69; 1977 ex.s. c 238 § 1; 1965 c 9 §29.71.020 ; prior: 1935 c 20 § 1; RRS § 5138-1. Formerly RCW 29.71.020.]
Standard name switching Party pledge substitute hitter.
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WISCONSIN - 10 Electoral Votes
State Law -§ 7.75
7.75      
7.75Presidential electors meeting.

7.75(1)      
(1) The electors for president and vice president shall meet at the state capitol following the presidential election at 12:00 noon the first Monday after the 2nd Wednesday in December. If there is a vacancy in the office of an elector due to death, refusal to act, failure to attend or other cause, the electors present shall immediately proceed to fill by ballot, by a plurality of votes, the electoral college vacancy. When all electors are present, or the vacancies filled, they shall perform their required duties under the constitution and laws of the United States.

7.75(2)      
(2) The presidential electors, when convened, shall vote by ballot for that person for president and that person for vice president who are, respectively, the candidates of the political party which nominated them under s. 8.18, the candidates whose names appeared on the nomination papers filed under s. 8.20, or the candidate or candidates who filed their names under s. 8.185 (2), except that at least one of the persons for whom the electors vote may not be an inhabitant of this state. A presidential elector is not required to vote for a candidate who is deceased at the time of the meeting.
 
Wisco' almost gets it right(ish), but at the last minute appears to forget how to decide which electors get to vote. We'll look into this one more.

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WYOMING - 3 Electoral Votes
State Law - §§ 22-19-106; 22-19-108

CHAPTER 19
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS

2219101.  When elected; number.

At a general election for president and vicepresident of the United States, electors for president and vicepresident of the United States shall be elected equal in number to senators and representatives in congress allotted to the state of Wyoming.

2219102.  Nomination.

(a)  In a general election year, the state convention of a political party nominating candidates for president and vice-president of the United States shall nominate the party's candidates for presidential electors and file certificates of nomination for these candidates with the secretary of state not later than thirty (30) days following termination of the state convention.

(b)  Independent candidates for president shall file the candidate’s nominees for presidential electors not less than seventy (70) days prior to the general election. The nominees shall be qualified electors.

2219103.  Crediting of votes.

The number of votes received by presidential and vice-presidential candidates is the number of votes credited to their electors.

2219104.  Certificate of election; directive.

Immediately upon filing of the certificate of the state canvassing board stating the result of the election, the governor shall issue a certificate of election to candidates elected to the office of presidential elector. The certificate shall direct the elector to attend a meeting with the governor in the office of the secretary of state at 12:00 noon on the Monday following the second Wednesday in December of presidential election years.

2219105.  Vacancy in nomination.

A vacancy in nomination for the office of presidential elector occurring before the general election shall be filled by the state central committee of the political party whose vacancy is to be filled or by an independent candidate's remaining electors, by certifying the name of the person filling the vacancy to the secretary of state.

2219106.  Certified electors to meet; vacancies.

Certified electors shall convene in the office of the secretary of state at 12:00 noon on the Monday following the second Wednesday in December of presidential election years. A vacancy in the office of elector for any cause including nonattendance shall be filled and certified by a majority of electors present.

2219107.  College of electors; duties.

When all electors are present and vacancies filled they shall constitute the college of electors of the state of Wyoming and shall perform duties as required by the constitution and laws of the United States.

2219108.  How electors to vote.

All Wyoming electors shall vote for the candidates for the office of president and vicepresident receiving the highest number of votes in the Wyoming general election.

2219109.  Compensation and mileage.

An elector shall receive fifty dollars ($50.00) compensation and mileage at the present rate for state employees.


Wyoming made me D/L a file and OPEN WORD. That's fascism for ya.
Their State's electoral procedure is an All-For-One though, and electors have to vote with the herd.


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Electoral Procedures By State, MD - OR

Candidate's Note: Maine precedes Maryland until postal. Makes one wonder.


MARYLAND - 10 Electoral Votes
State Law - § 20-4

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
20-1. Right of suffrage and conduct of election.
Each citizen of this State entitled to vote for Delegates to the
General Assembly shall have the right to vote for the whole number
of electors as provided in Sec. 20-2 of this Article. The presidential
electors of the candidates for President and Vice-President who re-
ceive the highest number of votes shall be declared to be elected as
said electors, and shall be deemed so appointed. The said election
shall in all respects be conducted as other elections, except as other-
wise provided in this article, and the returns thereof made and
canvassed as hereinbefore directed.
20-2. Election by general ticket.
On the day fixed by law of the United States for choice of President
and Vice-President of the United States there shall be elected by
general ticket as many electors of President and Vice-President as
this State shall be entitled to appoint. The names of the candidates
for the office of electors of President and Vice-President of the
United States shall not be printed on the ballot, but in lieu thereof
the names of the candidates of each political party for the office of
President and Vice-President shall be printed thereon. A vote for
said candidates for President and Vice-President shall be deemed
and counted as a vote for each of the presidential electors of said
party filed according to the provisions of this article.
20-3. Vacancies among electors.
Upon the meeting of the persons returned elected as electors of
President and Vice-President, or of as many of said persons as may
attend on the day appointed by the Constitution and laws of the
United States, the said electors who are present, before proceeding
to perform the duties reposed in them, shall fill any vacancy which
may exist in the said college of electors at such meeting, whether
such vacancy be occasioned by absence or otherwise. The said per-
son or persons so appointed to fill such vacancy or vacancies shall
be entitled to all rights and privileges of those proclaimed by the
Governor as duly elected electors of President and Vice-President
of the United States.
20-4. Meeting of electors.
The electors for this State shall meet in the State House in the
City of Annapolis. After taking and subscribing the oath prescribed
by Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitution, before the Clerk of the
Court of Appeals, or in his absence before one of his deputies, they
shall give their votes for President and Vice-President of the United
States, on the day fixed by law of the United States, for meetings of
electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, and
shall cast their votes for the candidates who have received a plurality
of the votes cast in the State of Maryland.

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MASSACHUSETTS - 12 Electoral Votes
Party Pledge / State Law - Ch. 53, § 8, Supp.

Chapter 53: Section 8. Certificates of nomination and nomination papers; contents; party designation

Section 8. All certificates of nomination and nomination papers shall, in addition to the names of candidates, specify as to each, (1) his residence, with street and number, if any, (2) the office for which he is nominated, and (3) except as otherwise provided in this section and except for elections which are not preceded by primaries or political party caucuses, the political designation, if any, which he represents, expressed in not more than three words. This information, in addition to the district name or number, if any, shall be specified on the nomination paper before any signature of a purported registered voter is obtained and the circulation of nomination papers without such information is prohibited. Certificates of nomination made by convention or caucus shall also state what provision, if any, was made for filling vacancies caused by the death, withdrawal or ineligibility of candidates. The state committees of the respective political parties at a meeting called for the purpose shall nominate the presidential electors. The surnames of the candidates for president and vice president of the United States shall be added to the party or political designation of the candidates for presidential electors. Such surnames and a list of the persons nominated for presidential electors, together with an acceptance in writing signed by each candidate for presidential elector on a form to be provided by the state secretary, shall be filed by the state chairmen of the respective political parties not later than the second Tuesday of September. Said acceptance form shall include a pledge by the presidential elector to vote for the candidate named in the filing. To the name of each candidate for alderman at large shall be added the number of the ward in which he resides. To the name of a candidate for a town office who is an elected incumbent thereof there may be added the words “Candidate for Re-election”.
If a candidate is nominated otherwise than by a political party the name of a political party shall not be used in his political designation nor shall the name of any organization which has been adjudicated subversive under section eighteen of chapter two hundred and sixty-four be used in his political designation. Certificates of nomination and nomination papers for city or town offices need not include a designation of the party which the candidate represents. Except in the case of nomination papers of candidates for offices to be filled by all the voters of the commonwealth, or of candidates for town offices and the office of regional district school committee member elected district-wide, no nomination papers shall contain the name of more than one candidate. Such nomination papers for candidates for governor and lieutenant governor shall contain provision for the names and addresses of members of a committee of five registered voters who shall fill any vacancy caused by death, withdrawal, ineligibility or disqualification of either candidate. Such nomination papers for town offices may contain the names of candidates for any or all of the offices to be filled at the town election, but the number of names of candidates on such paper for any one office shall not exceed the number to be elected thereto.
CHAPTER 54. ELECTIONS

MANNER OF VOTING

Chapter 54: Section 78. Voting for presidential electors, governor, and lieutenant governor; marking ballots

Section 78. In order to vote for presidential electors, the voter shall make a cross (X) in the square at the right of the party or political designation appearing on the ballot at the right of the surnames of the candidates for president and vice president, to vote for whom such candidates for electors are nominated; and the making of a cross as aforesaid shall be deemed and taken as a vote for such candidates for presidential electors, except as provided in section thirty-three E. A vote by sticker or write-in in the blank space at the end of the list of names of presidential and vice presidential candidates may be cast for those candidates whose names are contained in lists filed with the state secretary under the provisions of section seventy-eight A and shall be deemed to be a vote for each of the candidates for presidential elector whose names are contained in the appropriate list so filed; provided, however, that in such case the voter shall list only the surnames of the candidates for president and vice president. In order to vote for governor and lieutenant governor, the voter shall mark a cross (X) in the square at the right of the names of the group of candidates for said offices for whom he desires to vote, or by inserting the name and residence of any person for either office in the blank space provided therefor; provided, however, that no such inserted name may be that of a candidate whose name is printed upon the ballot as a candidate for the office.
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No Legal Requirement 
Electors in these States are not bound by State Law to cast their vote for a specific candidate:
MINNESOTA - 10 Electoral Votes

MICHIGAN - 17 Electoral Votes
State Law -(Violation cancels vote and elector is replaced).§168.47

Act 116 of 1954


168.42 Presidential electors; selection at state political party conventions, certification.

Sec. 42.
In the year in which presidential electors are to be elected under section 43, each political party in this state shall choose at its fall state convention a number of candidates for electors of president and vice-president of the United States equal to the number of senators and representatives in congress that this state is entitled to elect. The chairperson and the secretary of the state central committee of each political party shall, within 1 business day after the conclusion of the state convention, forward by registered or certified mail a certificate containing the names of the candidates for electors to the secretary of state. The candidates for electors of president and vice-president who shall be considered elected are those whose names have been certified to the secretary of state by that political party receiving the greatest number of votes for those offices at the next November election.
168.43 Presidential electors; election.

Sec. 43.
At the general November election held in the year 1956 and at the general November election held every fourth year thereafter, electors of president and vice-president of the United States shall be elected in the manner herein provided: Provided, That if congress should hereafter fix a different day for such election, then the election for electors shall be held on such day as shall be named by congress as provided in section 1 of article 2 of the United States constitution.

168.45 Cross or check mark as vote for presidential electors.

Sec. 45.
Marking a cross (X) or a check mark ( ) in the circle under the party name of a political party, at the general November election in a presidential year, shall not be considered and taken as a direct vote for the candidates of that political party for president and vice-president or either of them, but, as to the presidential vote, as a vote for the entire list or set of presidential electors chosen by that political party and certified to the secretary of state pursuant to this chapter.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955 ;-- Am. 1985, Act 160, Imd. Eff. Nov. 20, 1985 
Popular Name: Election Code

68.47 Convening of presidential electors; time and place thereof; resignations; refusal or failure to vote; vacancies.

Sec. 47.
The electors of president and vice-president shall convene in the senate chamber at the capitol of the state at 2 p.m., eastern standard time, on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December following their election. At any time before receipt of the certificate of the governor or within 48 hours thereafter, an elector may resign by submitting his written and verified resignation to the governor. Failure to so resign signifies consent to serve and to cast his vote for the candidates for president and vice-president appearing on the Michigan ballot of the political party which nominated him. Refusal or failure to vote for the candidates for president and vice-president appearing on the Michigan ballot of the political party which nominated the elector constitutes a resignation from the office of elector, his vote shall not be recorded and the remaining electors shall forthwith fill the vacancy. The ballot used by the elector shall bear the name of the elector. If at the time of convening there is any vacancy caused by death, resignation, refusal or failure to vote, neglect to attend, or ineligibility of any person elected, or for any other cause, the qualified electors of president and vice-president shall proceed to fill such vacancy by ballot, by a plurality of votes. When all the electors appear and the vacancy shall be filled, they shall proceed to perform the duties of such electors, as required by the constitution and laws of the United States. If congress hereafter fixes a different day for such meeting, the electors shall meet and give their votes on the day designated by act of congress.


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No Legal Requirement
Electors in these States are not bound by State Law to cast their vote for a specific candidate:
MINNESOTA - 10 Electoral Votes
MISSOURI - 11 Electoral Votes

MISSISSIPPI - 6 Electoral Votes
Party Pledge / State Law - §23-15-785(3)

§ 23-15-785. Certificates of nomination and nominating petitions; preparation of official ballots.
(1)  When presidential electors are to be chosen, the Secretary of State of Mississippi shall certify to the circuit clerks of the several counties the names of all candidates for President and Vice-President who are nominated by any national convention or other like assembly of any political party or by written petition signed by at least one thousand (1,000) qualified voters of this state.

(2)  The certificate of nomination by a political party convention must be signed by the presiding officer and secretary of the convention and by the chairman of the state executive committee of the political party making the nomination. Any nominating petition, to be valid, must contain the signatures as well as the addresses of the petitioners. Such certificates and petitions must be filed with the State Board of Election Commissioners by filing the same in the office of the Secretary of State not less than sixty (60) days previous to the day of the election
(3)  Each certificate of nomination and nominating petition must be accompanied by a list of the names and addresses of persons, who shall be qualified voters of this state, equal in number to the number of presidential electors to be chosen. Each person so listed shall execute the following statement which shall be attached to the certificate or petition when the same is filed with the State Board of Election Commissioners: "I do hereby consent and do hereby agree to serve as elector for President and Vice-President of the United States, if elected to that position, and do hereby agree that, if so elected, I shall cast my ballot as such for ________ for President and ________ for Vice-President of the United States" (inserting in said blank spaces the respective names of the persons named as nominees for said respective offices in the certificate to which this statement is attached.
(4)  The State Board of Election Commissioners and any other official charged with the preparation of official ballots shall place on such official ballots the words "PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS FOR (here insert the name of the candidate for President, the word 'AND' and the name of the candidate for Vice-President)" in lieu of placing the names of such presidential electors on such official ballots, and a vote cast therefor shall be counted and shall be in all respects effective as a vote for each of the presidential electors representing such candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States. In the case of unpledged electors, the State Board of Election Commissioners and any other official charged with the preparation of official ballots shall place on such official ballots the words "UNPLEDGED ELECTOR(S) (here insert the name(s) of individual unpledged elector(s) if placed upon the ballot based upon a petition granted in the manner provided by law stating the individual name(s) of the elector(s) rather than a slate of electors)." 

Mississppi has a Party Pledge, a situation we've seen before. In BrawnyMan terms, it's That Thing We're Going Through.

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MONTANA - 3 Electoral Votes
State Law - §13-25-104

     13-25-101. Nomination of electors -- ballot. (1) Each political party qualified under 13-10-601 shall nominate presidential electors for this state and file certificates of nomination for these candidates with the secretary of state in a form prescribed by the secretary of state no later than 76 days before the general election, in the manner and number provided by law. However, in the event of the death of a candidate for president or vice president, a new candidate for president or vice president, or both, may be nominated for the affected political party and certificates of election may be filed with the secretary of state less than 76 days before a general election. 
     (2) The secretary of state shall certify to the election administrator the names of the candidates for president and vice president of the several political parties, which must be placed on the ballot by one of the methods provided in 13-12-204. If the name of a new candidate for president or vice president, or both, is certified to the secretary of state in less than 76 days pursuant to subsection (1), the secretary of state shall immediately certify the new name or names to the election administrators and the new name or names must be placed on the ballot by one of the methods provided in 13-12-204. 
     (3) The names of candidates for electors of president and vice president may not appear on the ballot.
    13-25-102. Election of electors. (1) On the Tuesday next after the first Monday of November in the year in which a president of the United States is to be elected, there shall be elected as many electors for president and vice president of the United States as are allocated to this state. 
     (2) The votes cast for candidates for president and vice president of each political party shall be counted for the candidates for presidential electors of the political party whose names have been filed with the secretary of state.
     13-25-103. Returns -- lists of electors elected. (1) The votes for candidates for president and vice president shall be given, received, returned, and canvassed as the votes are given, returned, and canvassed for candidates for congress. 
     (2) The secretary of state shall prepare three lists of names of electors elected and affix the seal of the state to the lists. 
     (3) The lists shall be signed by the governor and secretary of state and delivered by the latter to the college of electors at the hour of their meeting.
     13-25-104. Meeting and voting of electors. (1) The electors shall meet in Helena at 2 p.m. on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December following their election. 
     (2) The electors shall vote by separate ballots for one person for president and one for vice president of the United States. 
     (3) The electors shall cast their ballots for the persons who received the highest number of votes for president and vice president of the United States, respectively, in the most recently conducted general election in the state of Montana.

Montana comes in to the top 5 list as a state whose electoral procedure reflects the will of the people. If you've ever met a Montanan, you know why; these folks don't take kindly to being herded, as they are intimately aware of what awaits a herd at the end of a cattle drive.

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NEBRASKA - 5 Electoral Votes
State Law - § 32-714

Section 32-713
Presidential electors; notice of appointment; meeting.
The certificates of appointment for presidential electors shall be served by the Governor on each person appointed. The Governor shall notify the presidential electors to be at the State Capitol at noon on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December after appointment and report to the Governor at his or her office in the capitol as being in attendance. The Governor shall serve the certificates of appointment by registered or certified mail. The presidential electors shall convene at 2 p.m. of such Monday at the Governor's office in the capitol.
Source:
• Laws 1994, LB 76, 213
Annotations:
• Governor appoints presidential electors in accordance with return of state canvassing board. State ex rel. Beeson v. Marsh, 150 Neb. 233, 34 N.W.2d 279 (1948).

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska

Section 32-714
Presidential electors; vacancies; how filled; meeting; procedure.
The Governor shall provide each presidential elector with a list of all the electors. If any elector is absent or if there is a deficiency in the proper number of electors, those present shall elect from the citizens of the state so many persons as will supply the deficiency and immediately issue a certificate of election, signed by those present or a majority of them, to the person or persons so chosen. In case of failure to elect by 3 p.m. of such day, the Governor shall fill the vacancies by appointment. After all vacancies are filled, the college of electors shall proceed with the election of a President of the United States and a Vice President of the United States and certify their votes in conformity with the Constitution and laws of the United States. Each at-large presidential elector shall cast his or her ballot for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates who received the highest number of votes in the state. Each congressional district presidential elector shall cast his or her ballot for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates who received the highest number of votes in his or her congressional district.
Source:
• Laws 1994, LB 76, 214
Annotations:
• This section provides procedures for meeting of presidential electors. State ex rel. Beeson v. Marsh, 150 Neb. 233, 34 N.W.2d 279 (1948).

Nebraska joins the ranks of states whose democracy is truly representational.

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NEVADA - 5 Electoral Votes
State Law - § 298.050

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
      NRS 298.010  Time when chosen; number.  In each year when the election of President and Vice President of the United States is to take place, there shall be chosen as many electors of President and Vice President of the United States as this State is then entitled to.
      [Part 1:108:1866; B § 2599; BH § 1636; C § 1782; RL § 2765; NCL § 4765] + [3:108:1866; B § 2601; BH § 1638; C § 1784; RL § 2767; NCL § 4767]
      NRS 298.020  Selection of party’s nominees.
      1.  Each major political party in this State, qualified by law to place upon the general election ballot candidates for the office of President and Vice President of the United States in the year when they are to be elected, shall, at the state convention of the major political party held in that year, choose from the qualified electors, who are legally registered members of that political party, the number of presidential electors required by law and no more, who must be nominated by the delegates at the state convention. Upon the nomination thereof, the chairman and the secretary of the convention shall certify the names and addresses of the nominees to the Secretary of State, who shall record the names in his office as the nominees of that political party for presidential elector.
      2.  Each minor political party in this State, qualified by law to place upon the general election ballot candidates for the office of President and Vice President of the United States in the year when they are to be elected, shall choose from the qualified electors, the number of presidential electors required by law. The person who is authorized to file the list of candidates for partisan office of the minor political party with the Secretary of State pursuant to NRS 293.1725 shall certify the names and addresses of the nominees to the Secretary of State, who shall record the names in his office as the nominees of that political party for presidential elector.
      [1:38:1949; 1943 NCL § 4767.01] + [2:38:1949; A 1953, 135] + [3:38:1949; 1943 NCL § 4767.03]—(NRS A 1969, 65; 1979, 405; 1989, 2172; 1999, 3560)
      NRS 298.025  Nominees of candidates who receive highest number of votes at general election become presidential electors.  Presidential electors are not nominated at the primary election or placed upon the general election ballot, but the nominees of the presidential and vice presidential candidates who receive the highest number of votes at the general election thereby become the official presidential electors. The presidential electors shall perform the duties of such electors as required by law and the Constitution of the United States.
      (Added to NRS by 1979, 405; A 1993, 2782)
      NRS 298.030  Time when presidential electors required to convene at seat of government.  The presidential electors so chosen shall convene at the seat of government on the 1st Monday after the 2nd Wednesday in December next after their election, at 2 p.m., or on such other date as the Congress of the United States may by law hereafter provide.
      [Part 6:108:1866; A 1869, 64; 1917, 391; 1937, 186; 1931 NCL § 4770]
      NRS 298.040  Filling vacancy upon death or absence of presidential elector.  In case of the death or absence of any presidential elector chosen, or if the number of presidential electors shall from any cause be deficient, the national committeewoman, the national committeeman and the state chairman of the party whose nominees for President and Vice President received the greatest number of votes in the State at the next preceding general election shall forthwith elect, from the qualified electors of this State registered as affiliated with such prevailing party, as many persons as will supply the deficiency. A majority of such three party officials shall be sufficient to fill such vacancies.
      [Part 6:108:1866; A 1869, 64; 1917, 391; 1937, 186; 1931 NCL § 4770]—(NRS A 1961, 296)
      NRS 298.050  Convening and voting for President and Vice President.  The presidential electors, when convened, shall vote by ballot for one person for President and one person for Vice President of the United States, one of whom, at least, must not be an inhabitant of this State. The presidential electors shall vote only for the nominees for President and Vice President of the party or the independent candidates that prevailed in this State in the preceding general election.
      [Part 7:108:1866; A 1869, 64; 1917, 391; 1937, 186; 1931 NCL § 4771]—(NRS A 1961, 296; 1993, 2783)
      NRS 298.060  Presidential electors to use separate ballots.  The presidential electors shall name in their ballots the persons voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the persons voted for as Vice President.
      [Part 7:108:1866; A 1869, 64; 1917, 391; 1937, 186; 1931 NCL § 4771]
      NRS 298.070  Lists of persons voted for and number of votes; certification; transmission to President of the Senate.  The presidential electors shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice President, and of the number of votes given for each, which lists they shall sign, certify, seal and transmit to the seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate.
      [Part 7:108:1866; A 1869, 64; 1917, 391; 1937, 186; 1931 NCL § 4771]
      NRS 298.080  Proceedings of presidential electors to conform to United States Constitution and laws.  In complying with the provisions of NRS 298.050 to 298.070, inclusive, the presidential electors shall, in all respects, proceed conformably to the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the United States.
      [Part 7:108:1866; A 1869, 64; 1917, 391; 1937, 186; 1931 NCL § 4771]

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No Legal Requirement - Electors in these States are not bound by State Law to cast their vote for a specific candidate:
NEW HAMPSHIRE - 4 Electoral Votes
NEW JERSEY - 15 Electoral Votes

NEW MEXICO - 5 Electoral Votes
State Law -(Violation is a fourth degree felony.)§ 1-15-5 to 1-15-9

1-15-4. Presidential electors; election.
A.     The names of the presidential elector nominees shall not be placed upon the general election ballot; instead, the secretary of state shall certify to the county clerks the names of persons nominated by each qualified political party for the offices of president and vice president of the United States.
B.     The names of such nominees for president and vice president for each qualified political party shall be printed together in pairs upon the general election ballot. A vote for any such pair of nominees shall be a vote for the presidential electors of the political party by which such nominees were named.
C.     The presidential elector nominees of the party whose nominees for president and vice president receive the highest number of votes at the general election shall be the elected presidential electors for this state, and each shall be granted a certificate of election by the state canvassing board.

1-15-5. Presidential electors; duties.
Presidential electors for the state shall perform the duties of the presidential electors required by law and the constitution of the United States.

1-15-6. Presidential electors; organization.
A.     Presidential electors of the state shall meet at 11:00 a.m. in the office of the secretary of state on the day fixed by the laws of the United States for presidential electors to cast their ballots for president and vice president of the United States.
B.     At such meeting the presidential electors shall organize by choosing a presiding officer and a secretary.
C.     If the full number of electors required by law are not present at such meeting for any reason, those presidential electors present shall, from a list of names nominated by the state chairman of that party, forthwith choose electors from the voters of that state party.
D.     The secretary of state shall provide such clerical assistance as needed by the presidential electors in performing their duties.

1-15-8. Presidential electors; electoral college casting ballots; certification of results.
The presidential electors of the state shall meet at noon in the office of the secretary of state on the day fixed by the laws of the United States for presidential electors to cast their ballots for president and vice president and shall proceed to vote by ballot for president and vice president of the United States and to certify the results of such election in accordance with the constitution and laws of the United States. The presidential elector chosen as secretary shall keep a journal of the proceedings and deposit the journal in the office of the secretary of state, where it shall be kept on file.

1-15-9. Presidential electors; penalty.
A.     All presidential electors shall cast their ballots in the electoral college for the candidates of the political party which nominated them as presidential electors.
B.     Any presidential elector who casts his ballot in violation of the provisions contained in Subsection A of this section is guilty of a fourth degree felony.

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No Legal Requirement - Electors in these States are not bound by State Law to cast their vote for a specific candidate:
NEW YORK - 31 Electoral Votes

NORTH CAROLINA - 15 Electoral Votes
State Law -(Violation cancels vote; elector is replaced and is subject to $500 fine.) § 163-212

Article 18.
Presidential Electors.
§ 163208. Conduct of presidential election.
Unless otherwise provided, the election of presidential electors shall be conducted and the returns made in the manner prescribed by this Chapter for the election of State officers. (1901, c. 89, s. 79; Rev., s. 4371; C.S., s. 6009; 1933, c. 165, s. 11; 1967, c. 775, s. 1.)

§ 163209. Names of presidential electors not printed on ballots.
The names of candidates for electors of President and VicePresident nominated by any political party recognized in this State under G.S. 16396, or nominated under G.S. 1631(c) by a candidate for President of the United States who has qualified to have his name printed on the general election ballot as an unaffiliated candidate under G.S. 163122, shall be filed with the Secretary of State but shall not be printed on the ballot. In the case of the unaffiliated candidate, the names of candidates for electors must be filed with the Secretary of State no later than 12:00 noon on the first Friday in August. In place of their names, there shall be printed on the ballot the names of the candidates for President and VicePresident of each political party recognized in this State, and the name of any candidate for President who has qualified to have his name printed on the general election ballot under G.S. 163122. A candidate for President who has qualified for the general election ballot as an unaffiliated candidate under G.S. 163122 shall, no later than 12:00 noon on the first Friday in August, file with the State Board of Elections the name of a candidate for VicePresident, whose name shall also be printed on the ballot. A vote for the candidates named on the ballot shall be a vote for the electors of the party or unaffiliated candidate by which those candidates were nominated and whose names have been filed with the Secretary of State. (1901, c. 89, s. 78; Rev., s. 4372; C.S., s. 6010; 1933, c. 165, s. 11; 1949, c. 672, s. 2; 1967, c. 775, s. 1; 1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 782, s. 2; 2001460, s. 5.)

§ 163210. Governor to proclaim results; casting State's vote for President and VicePresident.
Upon receipt of the certifications prepared by the State Board of Elections and delivered in accordance with G.S. 163182.15, the Secretary of State, under seal of the office, shall notify the Governor of the names of the persons elected to the office of elector for President and VicePresident of the United States as stated in the abstracts of the State Board of Elections. Thereupon, the Governor shall immediately issue a proclamation setting forth the names of the electors and instructing them to be present in the old Hall of the House of Representatives in the State Capitol in the City of Raleigh at noon on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December next after their election, at which time the electors shall meet and vote on behalf of the State for President and VicePresident of the United States. The Governor shall cause this proclamation to be published in the daily newspapers published in the City of Raleigh. Notice may additionally be made on a radio or television station or both, but such notice shall be in addition to the newspaper and other required notice. The Secretary of State is responsible for making the actual arrangements for the meeting, preparing the agenda, and inviting guests.
Before the date fixed for the meeting of the electors, the Governor shall send by registered mail to the Archivist of the United States, either three duplicate original certificates, or one original certificate and two authenticated copies of the Certificates of Ascertainment, under the great seal of the State setting forth the names of the persons chosen as presidential electors for this State and the number of votes cast for each. These Certificates of Ascertainment should be sent as soon as possible after the election, but must be received before the Electoral College meeting. At the same time the Governor shall deliver to the electors six duplicate originals of the same certificate, each bearing the great seal of the State. At any time prior to receipt of the certificate of the Governor or within 48 hours thereafter, any person elected to the office of elector may resign by submitting his resignation, written and duly verified, to the Governor. Failure to so resign shall signify consent to serve and to cast his vote for the candidate of the political party which nominated such elector.
In case of the absence, ineligibility or resignation of any elector chosen, or if the proper number of electors shall for any cause be deficient, the first and second alternates, respectively, who were nominated under G.S. 1631(c), shall fill the first two vacancies. If the alternates are absent, ineligible, resign, or were not chosen, or if there are more than two vacancies, then the electors present at the required meeting shall forthwith elect from the citizens of the State a sufficient number of persons to fill the deficiency, and the persons chosen shall be deemed qualified electors to vote for President and VicePresident of the United States. (1901, c. 89, s. 81; Rev., s. 4374; 1917, c. 176, s. 2; C.S., ss. 5916, 6012; 1923, c. 111, s. 12; 1927, c. 260, s. 17; 1933, c. 165, s. 11; 1935, c. 143, s. 2; 1967, c. 775, s. 1; 1969, c. 949, ss. 1, 2; 1981, c. 35, s. 1; 1989, c. 93, s. 5; 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 738, s. 1; 2001398, s. 8.)

§ 163211. Compensation of presidential electors.
Presidential electors shall be paid, for attending the meeting held in the City of Raleigh on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December next after their election, the sum of fortyfour dollars ($44.00) per day and traveling expenses at the rate of seventeen cents (17¢) per mile in going to and returning home from the required meeting. (1901, c. 89, s. 84; Rev., s. 2761; C.S., s. 3878; 1933, c. 5; 1967, c. 775, s. 1; 1979, c. 1008.)

§ 163212. Penalty for failure of presidential elector to attend and vote.
Any presidential elector having previously signified his consent to serve as such, who fails to attend and vote for the candidate of the political party which nominated such elector, for President and VicePresident of the United States at the time and place directed in G.S. 163210 (except in case of sickness or other unavoidable accident) shall forfeit and pay to the State five hundred dollars ($500.00), to be recovered by the Attorney General in the Superior Court of Wake County. In addition to such forfeiture, refusal or failure to vote for the candidates of the political party which nominated such elector shall constitute a resignation from the office of elector, his vote shall not be recorded, and the remaining electors shall forthwith fill such vacancy as hereinbefore provided.
The clear proceeds of forfeitures provided for in this section shall be remitted to the Civil Penalty and Forfeiture Fund in accordance with G.S. 115C457.2. (1901, c. 89, s. 83; Rev., s. 4375; C.S., s. 6013; 1933, c. 165, s. 11; 1967, c. 775, s. 1; 1969, c. 949, s. 3; 1998215, s. 131.)

§ 163213. Appointment of Presidential Electors by General Assembly in certain circumstances, by the Governor in certain other circumstances.
(a) Appointment by General Assembly if No Proclamation by Six Days Before Electors' Meeting Day. – As permitted by 3 U.S.C. § 2, whenever the appointment of any Presidential Elector has not been proclaimed under G.S. 163210 before noon on the date for settling controversies specified by 3 U.S.C. § 5, and upon the call of an extra session pursuant to the North Carolina Constitution for the purposes of this section, the General Assembly may fill the position of any Presidential Electors whose election is not yet proclaimed.
(b) Appointment by Governor if No Appointment by the Day Before Electors' Meeting Day. – If the appointment of any Presidential Elector has not been proclaimed under G.S. 163210 before noon on the date for settling controversies specified by 3 U.S.C. § 5, nor appointed by the General Assembly by noon on the day before the day set for the meeting of Presidential Electors by 3 U.S.C. § 7, then the Governor shall appoint that Elector.
(c) Standard for Decision by General Assembly and Governor. – In exercising their authority under subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the General Assembly and the Governor shall designate Electors in accord with their best judgment of the will of the electorate. The decisions of the General Assembly or Governor under subsections (a) and (b) of this section are not subject to judicial review, except to ensure that applicable statutory and constitutional procedures were followed. The judgment itself of what was the will of the electorate is not subject to judicial review.
(d) Proclamation Before Electors' Meeting Day Controls. – If the proclamation of any Presidential Elector under G.S. 163210 is made any time before noon on the day set for the meeting of Presidential Electors by 3 U.S.C. § 7, then that proclamation shall control over an appointment made by the General Assembly or the Governor. This section does not preclude litigation otherwise provided by law to challenge the validity of the proclamation or the procedures that resulted in that proclamation. (2001289, s. 2.)


Almost as nice as Colorado, but i smell loopholes.
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No Legal Requirement - Electors in these States are not bound by State Law to cast their vote for a specific candidate:
NORTH DAKOTA - 3 Electoral Votes

OHIO - 20 Electoral Votes
State Law - § 3505.40

The secretary of state shall immediately upon the completion of the canvass of election returns mail to each presidential elector so elected a certificate of his election and shall notify him to attend, at a place in the state capitol which the secretary of state shall select, at twelve noon on the day designated by the congress of the United States, a meeting of the state's presidential electors for the purpose of discharging the duties enjoined on them by the constitution of the United States. The secretary of state, ten days prior to such meeting, shall by letter remind each such elector of the meeting to be held for casting the vote of the state for president and vice-president of the United States. Each such elector shall give notice to the secretary of state before nine a.m. of that day whether or not he will be present at the appointed hour ready to perform his duties as a presidential elector. If at twelve noon at the place selected by the secretary of state presidential electors equal in number to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may at the time be entitled in the congress of the United States, are not present, the presidential electors present shall immediately proceed, in the presence of the governor and secretary of state, to appoint by ballot such number of persons to serve as presidential electors so that the number of duly elected presidential electors present at such time and place plus the presidential electors so appointed shall be equal in number to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state is at that time entitled in the congress of the United States; provided, that each such appointment shall be made by a separate ballot, and that all appointments to fill vacancies existing because duly elected presidential electors are not present shall be made before other appointments are made, and that in making each such appointment the person appointed shall be of the same political party as the duly elected presidential elector whose absence requires such appointment to be made. In case of a tie vote the governor shall determine the results by lot. The electors making such appointments shall certify forthwith to the secretary of state the names of the persons so appointed and the secretary of state shall immediately issue to such appointees certificates of their appointment and notify them thereof. All of the state's presidential electors, both those duly elected who are then present and those appointed as herein provided, shall then meet and organize by electing one of their number as chairman and by designating the secretary of state as ex officio secretary and shall then and there discharge all of the duties enjoined upon presidential electors by the constitution and laws of the United States. Each presidential elector shall receive ten dollars for each day's attendance in Columbus as such and mileage at the rate of ten cents per mile for the estimated distance by the usual route from his place of residence to Columbus. Such compensation and mileage shall be upon vouchers issued by the secretary of state, and shall be paid by the treasurer of state out of the general fund. 

A presidential elector elected at a general election or appointed pursuant to section 3505.39 of the Revised Code shall, when discharging the duties enjoined upon him by the constitution or laws of the United States, cast his electoral vote for the nominees for president and vice-president of the political party which certified him to the secretary of state as a presidential elector pursuant to law. 


HISTORY: 133 v H 500. Eff 11-14-69.

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OKLAHOMA - 7 Electoral Votes
State Pledge / State Law - (Violation of oath is a misdemeanor, carrying a fine of up to $1000.)26, §§ 10-102; 10-109

§2610102. Oath for Presidential Electors.
Every party nominee for Presidential Elector shall subscribe to an oath, stating that said nominee, if elected, will cast his ballot for the persons nominated for the offices of President and Vice President by the national convention of his party. Said oath shall be notarized by a notary public and filed with the Secretary of the State Election Board no fewer than ninety (90) days prior to the General Election. Failure of any party nominee to take and file said oath by said date shall automatically vacate his nomination and a substitute nominee shall be selected by the state central committee of the appropriate political party. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the State Election Board to notify the chairman of the state central committee of the failure of any nominee to file said oath.
Laws 1974, c. 153, § 10102, operative Jan. 1, 1975; Laws 1977, c. 136, § 2.
§2610103. Election of Presidential Electors.
On the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each year next preceding the expiration of the term of office of each President of the United States, the registered voters of this state shall elect a number of electors for President and Vice President equal to the number of United States Senators and United States Representatives which the state is entitled to elect. Said electors shall be elected in the same manner as is provided for state officers.
Laws 1974, c. 153, § 10103, operative Jan. 1, 1975.
§2610104. Qualifications.
The electors for President and Vice President, hereinafter referred to as Presidential Electors, shall be registered voters of Oklahoma; provided, however, that no United States Senator or United States Representative or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States shall be a Presidential Elector.
Laws 1974, c. 153, § 10104, operative Jan. 1, 1975.
§2610105. Ballots.
At any General Election in which Presidential Electors are to be elected, the State Election Board shall provide ballots on which the names of the Presidential Electors of each political party shall be bracketed adjacent to the names of said party's candidates for President and Vice President. The names of the Independent nominees for Presidential Electors shall be bracketed adjacent to the names of the candidates for President and Vice President for whom they have subscribed an oath to cast their ballots or bracketed adjacent to the word "Uncommitted" in the event said nominees are uncommitted. Said ballots shall, in all other respects, have the appearance of ballots used for state officers.
Laws 1974, c. 153, § 10105, operative Jan. 1, 1975; Laws 1977, c. 136, § 3.
§2610106. Certificates of Election.
Certificates of Election issued by the State Election Board to Presidential Electors shall be transmitted to such electors by the Governor.
Laws 1974, c. 153, § 10106, operative Jan. 1, 1975.
§2610107. Electors to meet Duties.
Persons chosen as Presidential Electors shall meet at 10:00 a.m. in the Governor's office at the time appointed by the laws of the United States and cast their votes in the manner therein provided and perform such duties as may be required by law. Each such Elector shall receive mileage reimbursement at the rate as provided for state employees, said reimbursement to be paid from funds appropriated to the Office of the Governor.
Amended by Laws 1983, c. 171, § 17, emerg. eff. June 6, 1983.
§2610108. Vacancies.
In the event any Presidential Elector fails to meet at the Governor's office at the prescribed time, it shall be the duty of such Electors present at the time and place aforesaid to appoint a person to fill such vacancy.
Laws 1974, c. 153, § 10108, operative Jan. 1, 1975.
§2610109. Penalty.
Any Presidential Elector who violates his oath as a Presidential Elector shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).
Laws 1974, c. 153, § 10109, operative Jan. 1, 1975.



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OREGON - 7 Electoral Votes
State Pledge / State Law - § 248.355

  248.355 Selection of presidential electors; candidate’s pledge. (1) In a year when a President and Vice President of the United States are to be nominated and elected, each political party nominating candidates for those offices shall select a number of candidates for elector of President and Vice President equal to the total number of Senators and Representatives to which this state is entitled in Congress.
      (2) A candidate for elector when selected shall sign a pledge that, if elected, the candidate will vote in the electoral college for the candidates of the party for President and Vice President. The Secretary of State shall prescribe the form of the pledge. The party shall certify the names of the selected candidates for elector to the Secretary of State not later than the 70th day before the election of electors. [Formerly 248.340; 1961 c.46 §1; 1961 c.667 §4; 1965 c.138 §1; 1975 c.779 §16; 1979 c.190 §89; 1993 c.797 §25; 2001 c.965 §2]
 
      248.360 Election time and number of presidential electors to be elected; names of presidential electors not printed on ballot. (1) At the general election in a year when a President and Vice President of the United States are to be elected, the electors of this state shall elect as many electors of President and Vice President as this state is entitled to elect Senators and Representatives in Congress.
      (2) The names of the electors shall not be printed on the general election ballot. A vote for the candidates for President and Vice President shall be a vote for the electors supporting those candidates and selected as provided by law. The general election ballot shall state that electors of President and Vice President are being elected and that a vote for the candidates for President and Vice President shall be a vote for the electors supporting those candidates. [Amended by 1979 c.190 §90; 1993 c.493 §4]
 
      248.370 Convening of electors; vacancies; duties. The electors of President and Vice President shall convene at the State Capitol on the Monday after the second Wednesday in December following their election. If there is any vacancy in the office of an elector caused by death, refusal to act, neglect to attend or otherwise, the electors present immediately shall fill it by plurality of voice votes. When all the electors have appeared or the vacancies have been filled, the electors shall perform the duties required of them by the Constitution and laws of the United States. [Amended by 1979 c.190 §91; 1995 c.79 §88; 1995 c.607 §12]
 
      248.380 Electors’ mileage expenses. An elector of President and Vice President of the United States who attends at the time and place appointed and votes for President and Vice President shall be entitled to receive from this state mileage expenses at the rate allowed to members of the Legislative Assembly. [Amended by 1957 c.608 §63; 1979 c.190 §92; 1995 c.607 §13]

Oregon trusts their electors to abide the Party Pledge.