HB441 Alabama 2019 Session

Under existing law, in elections for the President and Vice President of the United States, all of the electoral votes for the state are assigned to the presidential candidate who won the statewide popular vote

This bill would provide that one presidential elector is chosen from each congressional district and two presidential electors are chosen at large

This bill would require the at-large presidential electors to cast their ballots for the presidential candidate who received the largest number of votes in the state, and the congressional district presidential electors to cast their ballots for the presidential candidate who received the largest number of votes in each respective congressional district

Relating to presidential elections; to amend Sections 17-14-10, 17-14-30, 17-14-31, 17-14-32, and 17-14-36, Code of Alabama 1975; to provide that one presidential elector is chosen from each congressional district and two presidential electors are chosen at large; and to require an at-large presidential elector to cast a ballot for the presidential candidate who received the largest number of votes in the state, and each congressional district presidential elector to cast a ballot for the presidential candidate who received the largest number of votes in the elector's respective congressional district.