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To: CFW
The United States Constitution only grants the legislatures of the several states the power to choose the method of holding elections for Senators, Representatives, and Electors to the Electoral College.

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

22 posted on 06/03/2024 1:21:22 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too
Crazy here in MA, going in the opposite direction, 11 year old vote proposed!

The mayor of Boston is proposing for children as young as 11 and illegal immigrants to have a say in the city's budget.

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.

29 posted on 06/03/2024 3:07:31 AM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

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.


37 posted on 06/03/2024 5:13:18 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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