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To: Lazamataz; LS; Publius; P-Marlowe

The problem with the electoral college vote, and I have also written that it is actually determined by the electors themselves, is that it is only an issue with Hillary if Hillary wins the majority of electors in the election itself.

If she does, I find it hard to believe that she will willingly release them to vote for someone other than herself who will have just won an election.

Additionally, I agree with LS that this kind of situation will so depress/change the democrat turnout that it’s unlikely a democrat would win.

My real concern is some obscure clause in the constitution or some law that I might be missing regarding the president calling for new elections in the event of disruption of this election.

Is there any such thing that anyone knows of?

Also, read this very closely and imagine how a legal beagle could distort it:

“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.”

I do not see it saying that a person cannot HOLD the office of president more than twice. It says they cannot be elected to that office more than twice.


29 posted on 09/11/2016 7:55:00 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: xzins
There is no such thing as a president throwing out an election and calling a new one. The Constitution gives the choice of electors to state legislatures, who over the years have passed that duty on to the electorate. You could have the legislatures end presidential elections in their states or simply override the choice of the voters. Both would be politically unpopular, but still legal.

Obama getting a third term would be such an open violation of the Constitution that it would not stand. Even Obama knows that.

33 posted on 09/11/2016 8:02:33 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: xzins

“INTERESTING” maybe they should get an “intern” to work on this”


93 posted on 09/12/2016 11:57:39 AM PDT by mulder1 ("It is not the critic that matters")
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