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To: lowbridge; All
The states prohibited themselves from establishing such winner-take-all electoral vote laws imo when they ratified the 12th Amendment.
Excerpted from 12th Amendment: "The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; …"

Corrections, insights welcome.

39 posted on 04/27/2018 5:41:11 PM PDT by Amendment10
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Article 1, section 10 also prohibits the agreement...

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

46 posted on 04/27/2018 6:51:43 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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