[Political Junkie Too]

Your last post didn't really address my points.

Do you expect Pennsylvania to create a chaotic situation such that they fail to meet the safe harbor date for the Electoral College and therefore don't participate?

My Florida timeline at the start shows what happens if they take 10 days out of the calendar due to counting the votes. They are robbing time from the post-election challenge period.

Am I to conclude that you would prefer the entire disenfranchisement of the state of Pennsylvania to the legislature stepping in to keep the state in the Electoral College?

-PJ

[semimojo]

Am I to conclude that you would prefer the entire disenfranchisement of the state of Pennsylvania to the legislature stepping in to keep the state in the Electoral College?

My preference doesn't enter into it. The USSC has ruled in McPherson v Blacker that based on the 14th Amendment the state legislature cannot violate state constitutional voter rights in a presidential election.

"Whenever presidential electors are appointed by popular election, then the right to vote cannot be denied or abridged without invoking the penalty; and so of the right to vote for representatives in congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof. The right to vote intended to be protected refers to the right to vote as established by the laws and constitution of the state."

Having the legislature unilaterally chose the electors would be in clear violation of the state constitution and SCOTUS has explicitly ruled that's unacceptable, Article II Section 1 notwithstanding.

Could SCOTUS ignore precedent and rule differently this time? Sure, but I'm betting against it. Not because that's what I want but because the law seems pretty clear cut.