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12/17/2004: Thought for the Day:
In Minnesota, however, electors cast their vote by secret ballot, or at least they did so yesterday. (There's no explicit secret-ballot requirement for electors under Minnesota state law.) According to an Associated Press report, each of the state's ten electors wrote the name of his candidate on a sheet of paper measuring eight by eleven inches and then put the piece of paper in a pine box. The electors did not sign their ballots. All ten of the ballots ought to have had John Kerry's name written on them, since all ten electors were pledged to Kerry, who took Minnesota, 51-48 percent, on Nov. 2. But one elector wrote John Edwards' name instead. None of the electors would admit to having done it, and it's possible none of them actually remembers having done it. (That even a highly active Kerry supporter would have trouble remembering his candidate's name a little more than one month after the election is, sadly, plausible.)
--Timothy Noah [slate.msn.com]
Len on 12.17.04 @ 07:24 AM CST
