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To: jarwulf

“The President has never been chosen by popular vote. States select electors by the vote of their state not those outside.”

States select electors by POPULAR VOTE.


5 posted on 09/25/2020 3:42:15 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

“States select electors by POPULAR VOTE.”


True enough, but they are not Constitutionally required to do so. States aren’t Constitutionally required to even hold an election for President. Bottom line, a state’s legislature has the power to choose its Electors.


6 posted on 09/25/2020 3:47:54 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: TexasGator; jarwulf

The states select Electoral Collage electors via the method approved by their state legislators. Currently, almost all states choose based on the vote within their state. Most award electors on a winner-take-all basis, but some states, Maine I think, have a proportional number of electors and not a winner-take-all basis. A few states have foolishly voted to give their Electoral College electors to the national popular vote winner and thus discard the votes of their own people in their state.

Bottom line: the state legislators decide and you have NO Constitutional Right to vote for President.


10 posted on 09/25/2020 3:53:05 PM PDT by libertylover (Election 2020: Make America Great Again or Burn it to the Ground. Choose one.)
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To: TexasGator

If information subsequent to the election presents probable cause to investigate voter fraud, and an investigation supports that, the electorates of the majority legislative districts might well demand a remedy such as appointing electors without regard to a tainted popular vote. In such a case the Rats would go berserk claiming the death of democracy, and I would reply it was the resuscitation of the republic.


18 posted on 09/25/2020 4:09:34 PM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal that can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground--Mencken)
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To: TexasGator

“Each State shall appoint, in a manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of Electors...”

It could not be more clear. If the Pennsylvania Legislature so chooses, it can appoint Electors directly. The Florida Legislature was going to do just that in 2000, yet another reason the USSC never should have heard the Bush v. Gore case.


25 posted on 09/25/2020 4:34:03 PM PDT by Jim Noble
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