Thanks to Richard Winger of Ballot Access News for this post.
On April 11, 2016, Oklahoma SB 1108, was signed into law. It takes the names of Presidential Elector candidates of the General Election ballot.
Only four states: Arizona, Idaho, North Dakota, and South Dakota, still prints Elector names on the ballot.
Long ago, each State printed the names of every candidate for Presidential Elector and let voters vote for individual Candidates for Elector, so that it was possible for a voter to vote for one elector on one Party’s ticket, another elector on another Party’s ticket, etc. That is why, in the past, it was not rare for states to split their Electoral votes between two different candidates, even though that State was using a winner-take-all system.
For example, in 1916, West Virginia elected seven Republican Presidential Electors and one Democratic Elector to the Electoral College.
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