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“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.”

There is nothing stopping the state legislature from declaring that there will be no popular vote, and that the electors will be assigned by a vote of legislators.

49 posted on 10/19/2017 11:14:07 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)

South Carolina didn’t chose electors based on popular vote until 1868.

54 posted on 10/19/2017 11:34:54 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)