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To: Phantom Lord
I understand that. In fact, I never claimed they did. But they do have a right to a republican form of government. Electors representing the citizens of other states violates that section of the Constitution, otherwise there need be no states at all, but simply administrative districts of the Federal Government (something we are perilously close to now).
112 posted on 01/04/2008 7:34:32 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie

I am not so sure this would violate the Constitution. States determine how and who is an elector and they then can make them vote in a certain way by law if they so choose, or they can let them vote however they want.

Today, an elector in DC for an example can vote for whoever the elector wants, or no one if that is what the elector wants.

In fact, that happened in 2000 when the DC Elector voted for no one instead of Algore who won the vote in DC.


113 posted on 01/04/2008 8:19:29 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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