Reining in Renegade Presidential Electors
A Uniform State Approach
As a follow-up to the recent program on the Electoral College, the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will present a lecture by a UT alumnus who is serving on a national committee looking at the problem of “renegade presidential electors.”
Jess O. Hale, Jr., a senior legislative attorney with the Office of Legal Services of the Tennessee General Assembly, will speak at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20 in Toyota Auditorium at the Baker Center. The event is free and open to the public.
His lecture, titled “Reining in Renegade Presidential Electors: A Uniform State Approach," will describe the problem posed by renegade presidential electors -- electors who disregard their party’s preferred candidates when voting for U.S. presidential or vice presidential candidates during the Electoral College. He also will talk about the developing response to that problem proposed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and its Drafting Committee on Faithful Presidential Electors.
A draft of the committee’s report can be found here
Event Details
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 7:00 PM
Location: Toyota Auditorium, Baker Center
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
Parking: UC Parking Garage
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