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Donald Trump will be on the ballot in the State of Illinois.

He may well be, but I doubt he will win Illinois. But do you realize that Lincoln was not on the ballot of nearly all of the slave states in the election of 1860? States do set the rules for elections in their states. California’s ‘Jungle Primary’ law results in 2 democrats on the ballot for US Senate—a Federal election. The Constitution sets the qualifications for Senate just as it does for President, but no Republican was on the California ballot in the last two Senate elections.

Lincoln won 212 of 233 electoral college votes.

The ballot access actions of the slave states were among hundreds of defiant actions they took in futility.

The slave states defiance ushered in a bloody senseless war.

The slave states were punished beyond anything they could imagine with the lingering effects of punishment remaining strong into the 20th Century.

The State of Illinois will be punished with a different type of war, a constitutional, judicial, and executive war that will leave disastrous effects on that State’s leftist ideologues one way or another.

Your point is irrelevant; twisted out of context, STATES DO NOT RULE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PERIOD. They have limited participation only.