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To: Killborn
The Constitution is silent on how a state allocates its electoral votes.

If it were, it would be unConstitutional, thus treasonous

50 posted on 09/22/2006 4:16:07 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week...)
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To: Ready4Freddy
The Constitution is silent on how a state allocates its electoral votes.

True, but any attempt on the part of a state to change the method that is used to allocate its electoral votes would certainly face a lot of legal scrutiny under Federal laws like the Voting Rights Act. A system in which electoral votes are given to a candidate who loses an election -- even by a wide margin -- may not stand up to a legal challenge.

To illustrate how preposterous this could be, just consider this hypothetical example . . .

Suppose a future Republican presidential candidate was so pessimistic about his chances to win the state of California that the GOP didn't even bother going through the process of getting on the ballot in the state. If the Democratic candidate won the state by securing 100% of the popular vote (I'll ignore minor party candidates for the sake of this example) but the Republican candidate won the national popular vote, would California be forced (under its own stupid law) to cast its electoral votes for a candidate who wasn't even on its own ballot?

65 posted on 09/22/2006 6:25:47 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: Ready4Freddy

Gotcha, loud and clear. Thanks.

Still, what do you think about the whole thing?


78 posted on 09/22/2006 7:36:34 AM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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