[flamberge]

States can use any procedure that they enact into law to choose their electors. They are not required to use the popular vote, however legitimate (or fraudulent) it may be.

The Constitution does not specify any definite procedure.

If the State legislature insists that only Democrats will be appointed, and enacts such a policy into law, then that is the end of it.

That appears to be the effective result in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and Georgia. The "Pretense-of-Law" allows unlimited election fraud by the Democrats to insure their candidate wins.

I can see a few problems with the legitimacy of such a Government. These cannot be addressed by clever legal arguments or more "elections".

[Cboldt]

Can’t happen. The constitution guarantees REPUBLICAN, not DEMOCRAT.

“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government ...”

But a guarantee from the US government is worthless.