S.J.Res. 6893rd CongressSenate Joint Resolution

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that each State shall choose a number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole…

Official title: A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the method of appointing electors of the President and the Vice President of the United States.

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Constitutional Amendment - Provides that each State shall choose a number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which that State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be chosen an elector. Provides that one elector shall be elected from each district within a State from which a Member of the House of Representatives is elected, and two electors shall be elected at large from each State. States that each candidate for the office of elector of President and Vice President shall file, with the Secretary of State of the State in which he seeks such office, a declaration under oath of the identity of the persons for whom he will vote for President and Vice President, which declaration shall be binding upon him and any successor to his office. Provides that any vote cast to the contrary shall be counted as a vote cast in accordance with such declaration.

Introduced Feb 22, 1973
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Strom Thurmond

Republican

U.S. Senator · SC

3 cosponsors — all Republican

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