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To: Principled
One other thing that I've been suggesting is this:

The state court's oversight gets murky when federal Electoral College elections are comingled on the same ballot with state races.

The Constitution says that the legislatures say how to select Electors, which would take this one vote away from a state court's ability to change. However, the state court might have a say on the conduct of the other races on the same ballot.

I'm arguing that the state can keep the ballots coming for a week after the election for local races, but not for the Electoral College if the legislature didn't set it up that way.

Therefore, they need to either have a separate ballot for the Presidential election which is wholly under the jurisdiction of the legislature, or they say that any ballots received after election day will not have their Presidential vote counted.

-PJ

14 posted on 09/25/2020 11:25:16 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Political Junkie Too
I'm arguing that the state can keep the ballots coming for a week after the election for local races, but not for the Electoral College if the legislature didn't set it up that way.

That is a strong position.

18 posted on 09/25/2020 11:44:09 AM PDT by Principled (No one will conquer America, from within or without, until its citizenry are disarmed.)
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