Monday, December 16, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Electors to pick Nixon in today's official voting
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The Electoral College, which has no campus, no faculty, no student body and its critics say no excuse for existence, holds its quadrennial reunion today. This could be the last one.
The 538 participants, called electors, will gather in state capitols to pick Richard M. Nixon as the 37th President of the United States and Spiro T. Agnew as the 39th Vice President.
If everybody follows the printed program, they will come up with a total of 302 votes for the Nixon-Agnew ticket, 191 for Hubert Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie, and 45 for George Wallace and Curtis LeMay.
It is these electoral votes that formally decide the presidential election which, for practical purposes, was decided by the American people on Nov. 5, when 32 states went Republican, 13 plus the District of Columbia voted Democratic, and 5 threw their strength to the American Independent Party.
what the voters actually picked on that day were slates of electors, pledged to one or another ticket. The electors are
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In some states the law requires this. Practically, the electors' votes cannot be controlled. In theory, they could elect anybody. That is one of many complaints that could lead to abolition of the Electoral College before the next presidential election.
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Scores of proposals have been readied for introduction in the 91st Congress to amend the Constitution to modify or get rid of the Electoral College. Early hearings have been promised on both sides of the capitol.
The system dates back to the country's origin, when the popular opinion was distrusted and Presidential electors were supposed to be leading figures who would make their own judgments on who the nation's bosses should be. That theory didn't last long, but the system prevailed.
Whatever the various electoral groups do today they will communicate their verdicts by registered mail to the President of the Senate, who happens to be Hubert H. Humphrey.
Humphrey, as outgoing vive president, then will preside over a joint House-Senate session on Jan. 6, at which the electors' reports will be opened and tallied. Then, and only then, will the Nixon-Agnew election become official.
Reception held for education faculty
KU Student Education Association members will host a faculty Christmas reception at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 18, in the community room of the First University State Bank, 955 Iowa St.
"This reception will give us (the students) an opportunity to meet faculty members outside of the classroom," said Cathy Cain, Sublette senior and 2nd vice president of SEA.
"Although we realize we're competing with last minute tests and papers," Miss Cain said, "we hope people will show interest in the reception."
Invitations were issued to all faculty members in the School of Education, Miss Cain said.
Actor Added
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — Alfred Hitchcock added French actor Michael Piccoli for a key role in his new movie, "Topaz."
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