(a) In each year when electors of president and vice president of the United States are to be chosen, each of the political parties or parties or groups qualified under section 11-113 shall hold a state party or group convention pursuant to the constitution, bylaws, and rules of the party or group; and nominate as candidates for its party or group as many electors, and a first and second alternate for each elector, of president and vice president of the United States as the State is then entitled. The electors and alternates shall be registered voters of the State. The names and addresses of the nominees shall be certified by the chairperson and secretary of the convention of the respective parties or groups and submitted to the chief election officer no later than 4:30 p.m. on the sixtieth day before the general election of the same year. The chief election officer upon receipt thereof, shall immediately notify each of the nominees for elector and alternate elector of the nomination.(b) Each elector nominee and alternate elector nominee of a political party or group shall execute the following pledge: “If selected for the position of elector, I agree to serve and to mark my ballots for president and vice president for the nominees for those offices of the party or group that nominated me”. The executed pledges shall accompany the submission of the corresponding names to the chief election officer. Electors shall be released from their pledge if the presidential candidate whom they are pledged to vote for dies. Electors shall not be released from their pledge under any circumstance other than the death of the presidential candidate for whom they are pledged to vote.
