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To: Lmo56
  We actually select the people who select the President. We voted for electors and if Obama is ineligible, then the electors can choose any qualified candidate and vote. I suppose a state could choose to have another election and seat a different set of electors.

   Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
329 posted on 12/01/2008 5:20:44 PM PST by Instant_Krazy_Glue
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To: Instant_Krazy_Glue

“We actually select the people who select the President. We voted for electors and if Obama is ineligible, then the electors can choose any qualified candidate and vote. I suppose a state could choose to have another election and seat a different set of electors.

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.”

Correct - except most States have changed their election laws to “winner-take-all”.

If Obama is ruled ineligible, it is like he NEVER ran - his slates in each State would be DQ’d and replaced with the runner-up’s electors ...

To let HIS electors stand would be akin to stuffing the ballot box, DQ’ing the winner, THEN letting THEM choose who they want ...


393 posted on 12/01/2008 8:34:24 PM PST by Lmo56
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