[Sonny M]

I'm afraid to ask this question, but I'll ask it anyway. Since people do not vote directly for canidates but actually vote for the slate of electors committed to voting for the canidate.

What would happen, hypothetically, if say the libertarian and constitutional party selected, as there electors, the GOP slate. COuld a state have more people vote for Kerry, but have more people vote for Bush's slate without voting for Bush? Thus giving Bush the states electoral votes?

It was a question I saw asked on a lefty website, and it did get me wondering.

[garbanzo]

Actually something like this happens under NY state law. Parties can cross-nominate people and vote for a person under a different "line" than the way the candidate is preferrentially nominated. Reagan I think was nominated under both the Republican and Conservative Party lines in NY.