But why bother? The election official in each state - in most states, this is the SoS - already has the authority to promulgate the rules to carry out his or her job. Why not just add the verification process to the rules? After all, just because a candidate cannot get his or her name on the ballot does not mean the Electors cannot still elect that person to be President. (Presumably, however, they wouldn’t dare!)
Sounds good to me. Let’s work on that.
If he (or any other usurper) can’t get on the ballot in enough states he can’t be elected unless there is a wholesale sellout of the Electors. Of course, Arnold Rothstein fixed a World Series, so I guess Omama and his crew could fix the Electoral College. But if the nation is that corrupt no law or election will fix it.
Since the names of the electors do not appear on the Texas Ballot, (they do or did in some states), how would someone who wanted to vote for Obama get elected anyway?
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Unless a "nonviable" candidate was put on the ballot, with the understanding that his/her electors would vote for Obama?
That would presumable be legal, since Texas does not punish "faithless" electors. The party generally selects the actual electors. In a very real sense, we are voting for the party, and technically are voting for the electors, not the candidate whose name appears on the ballot.