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To: cripplecreek

Stupid me I thought if the method of selecting electors were changed the vote in the Electoral Collge would be altered.


33 posted on 12/17/2012 10:32:59 AM PST by monocle
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To: monocle

The electoral college count is altered every time a state gains or loses a congressman.


34 posted on 12/17/2012 10:36:36 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: monocle; cripplecreek

Read the Constitution, plus the 12th Amendment.

The States are free to choose their electors how they like. They are not constrained to allocating all of their electors based on whoever gets the majority of the state’s vote in the presidential election election in November. Changing the method that a state selects electors does not change the “electoral college”. (For what it’s worth: my view is that the most critical aspects of “electoral college” is that states get electors total to their number of Representatives+Senators and that it is those electors’ vote, not popular vote, which determines who becomes president.)

Maine and Nebraska are well within the constraints of The Constitution in the way they choose electors.

Any State could conceivably appoint the richest person in the state, or the governor, or the school board presidents, or their Nobel Prize winners, to choose their electors.

PS: The Constitution does not contain the phrase “Electoral College”


35 posted on 12/17/2012 11:31:01 AM PST by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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