----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Hoover <hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 6:56 PM Subject: Re: President-Elect Gore
> > As
> > late as 1860, some state legislatures appointed their electors directly.
> > And no doubt someone will pipe up to clarify this, so I'll leave it at
> > that.
> > Marco
>
> I've not been party to lbo granfalloon's instant punditry on post-election
> stuff in last month but re. above...
>
> 9 of original 13 states had state legislatures choose, other four had
> either direct vote direct vote by congressional district or statewide
> *or* combination of state legislative/direct vote. Majority of states
> were selecting via direct vote by Andrew Jackson's presidency in late
> 1820s. Jackson unsuccessfully pushed for elimination of EC in favor
> of direct prez election *but* all but South Carolina (25 of 26) chose
> electors via direct vote by time AJ left office in 1837. SC continued
> to have state leg. select electors until 1860. There were 33 states by
> that time (7 new states between 1845 & 1859 all used direct election).
> Michael Hoover