The Constitution implies that elections of some manner will take place, but they leave that manner up to the state legislatures.
The only group that has direct constitutional authority to vote are the Electors to the Electoral College.
Other amendments put boundaries on what the state legislatures can and cannot do, but the legislatures decide where, when, and how elections will be conducted in their states.
-PJ
On Tuesday, Mayor Michelle Wu, a Democrat, announced during a city council committee meeting centered on her 2025 fiscal budget plan to expand participatory budget voting to those ineligible to vote in normal elections.
Until they let the Voting Rights Act decide election rules for the Southern states.
Thankfully, that part signaling out the South was stricken by the Supreme Court in 2013.
****Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for a majority of conservative, Republican-appointed justices, said the law’s provision that determines which states are covered is unconstitutional because it relies on 40-year-old data and does not account for racial progress and other changes in U.S. society.****
They should have just ruled making only certain states be held to this standard unconstitutional, full stop, period.