[#3Fan]

Seems like some Texas UNIONISTS tried to swing the election illegally:

All the more reason for the seceding states to follow Article IV.

[4CJ]

All the more reason for the seceding states to follow Article IV.

No. STATE elections are matters for the STATE to handle. Nothing in Article IV delegates power to the federal government to interfere with state elections.

[4CJ]

"All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their benefit; and they have at all times the unalienable right to alter, reform, or abolish their form of government, in such manner as they may think expedient."
Texas State Constitution of 1745, accepted by the Federal government with their resolution admitting Texas to the Union:

Whereas
     the Congress of the United States, by a joint resolution approved March the first, eighteen hundred and forty-five, did consent that the territory properly included within, and rightfully belonging to, the Republic of Texas, might be erected into a new State, to be called The State of Texas, with a republican form of government, to be adopted by the people of said republic, by deputies in convention assembled, with the consent of the existing government, in order that the same might be admitted as one of the States of the Union; which consent of Congress was given upon certain conditions specified in the first and second sections of said joint resolution; and whereas the people of the said Republic of Texas, by deputies in convention assembled, with the consent of the existing government, did adopt a constitution, and erect a new State with a republican form of government, and, in the name of the people of Texas, and by their authority, did ordain and declare that they assented to and accepted the proposals, conditions, and guaranties contained in said first and second sections of said resolution: and whereas the said constitution, with the proper evidence of its adoption by the people of the Republic of Texas, has been transmitted to the President of the United States and laid before Congress, in conformity to the provisions of said joint resolution

To which the President noted that a copy of the Texas Constitution had been sumitted to the federal government:

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

I communicate, herewith, a letter received from the President of the existing government of the State of Texas, transmitting duplicate copies of the constitution formed by the deputies of the people of Texas in convention assembled, accompanied with official information that the said constitution has been ratified, confirmed, and adopted by the people of Texas themselves, in accordance with the joint resolution for annexing Texas to the United States, and in order that Texas might be admitted as one of the States of that Union.

JAMES K. POLK.

Congress accepted their ratification and their Constitution which allowed the people of Texas to alter their form of government at will.