The Pittsburgh Press (November 4, 1944)
Mississippi law checks electors
Jackson, Mississippi (UP) –
The Mississippi Legislature today completed its approval of an emergency law guaranteeing the state’s nine electoral votes to the Roosevelt-Truman ticket in Tuesday’s election and sent it to Governor Thomas E. Bailey for his signature.
This was only a matter of form, however, since the Governor himself called the extraordinary session of the General Assembly after three Democratic electors announced that they would vote for Senator Harry Byrd (D-VA), instead of Mr. Roosevelt.
Both houses of the assembly approved in the special session yesterday a bill permitting the drafting of up to five replacements for the three dissident electors.