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To: jjotto
An election could be postponed with the cooperation of state and local governments. On short notice, may as well herd cats.

No, it cannot be.

The Constitution requires states choose their electors by a date certain: the very first Wednesday in December.

In Bush v. Gore the Supreme Court reaffirmed that this is a "hard date" which may not be overriden by statute, by the individual states, nor by any court.

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By the way, so many libtards claim the Supreme Court ruled against Gore in a 5-4 decision. Nope. Didn't happen. The Supreme Court ruling against Gore was 7-2, not 5-4. But two of the liberals who had found against Gore ruled on the basis of an Equal Protection violation, which they felt could be obviated by a statewide recount, rather than just one in Gore's cherry-picked Democrat heavy counties. In the 5-4 ruling the majority held this could not be accomplished by the Constitutionally mandated deadline.
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68 posted on 10/29/2016 1:42:29 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: FredZarguna

Well, yes, except I thought the date was by US Code, while the requirement it be the same throughout the states is in the Constitution. Presuming that Congress would just change to a later date, but a GOP Congress might not change the date for choosing Electors, leaving it to quick action by state legislatures. Yet another reason it ain’t happening.

The real point is; the president gets no say whatever. DHS has even complained about that.


72 posted on 10/29/2016 2:00:06 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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