Alabama. The 11-man Democratic elector slate consisted of six umpledged electors who
(1960)
finally voted for Sen. Harry Flood Byrd (D Va) and five loyalist electors for
Kennedy. Since the votes cannot be separated in counting, the highest vote
for an umpledged elector (324,050) is listed under that column and the bigbest
vote for a Kennedy elector (318,303) is listed in bis column. Under this method

of counting, bowever, voles for the Democratic elector slate are actually
counted twice with resultant inflation of both the Kennedy and unpledged pop-
ular vote totals. An alternative is to divide the bigbest Democratic elector
vole, 5/11 to Kennedy and 6/11 to umpledged. If that is done, Kemiedy's
Alabama total drops to 147,295 and be trails Nixon by 58,205 in the national
popular count.