[sharktrager]

Others go about exchanging votes -- or, more accurately, exchanging promises of votes -- in ways that vary from the patently illegal (selling them on private Web logs or on eBay) to the potentially legal (swapping them for other votes in battleground states) to the purposefully sardonic (protesting the influence of corporations).

Nope...not legal.

You do not vote for President, you vote for an elector. To be eligible to vote for that elector, you must reside in that state. Therefore, this vote swap is clearly illegal.

[ridesthemiles]

Nope...not legal.

You do not vote for President, you vote for an elector. To be eligible to vote for that elector, you must reside in that state. Therefore, this vote swap is clearly illegal.
I believe that many "students" who attend school out of their home state register to vote in both locations. They gat an absentee ballot from home, with whatever for a reason, and they register to vote where they attend school.
Allowing students at the U of W in Madison to vote is what turned that city into the liberal mess it is today.
I don't think there is ANY was the local Registrar of Voters could catch this flaw in the system.

[ridesthemiles]

Nope...not legal.

You do not vote for President, you vote for an elector. To be eligible to vote for that elector, you must reside in that state. Therefore, this vote swap is clearly illegal.
I believe that many "students" who attend school out of their home state register to vote in both locations. They get an absentee ballot from home, with whatever for a reason, and they register to vote where they attend school.
Allowing students at the U of W in Madison to vote is what turned that city into the liberal mess it is today.
I don't think there is ANY way the local Registrar of Voters could catch this flaw in the system.