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re: Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting
Posted on 4/29/24 at 11:29 am to loogaroo
Posted on 4/29/24 at 11:29 am to loogaroo
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The right to vote is the foundation of American democracy.
There is no Constitutionally-assigned "right to vote". This was confirmed in SCOTUS' Bush v. Gore (2000).
States must appoint electors. The Constitution doesn't give a whit one way or another how that is accomplished. It just so happens that all 50 states and the District of Columbia do so via democratically-held elections.
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Posted on 4/29/24 at 11:53 am to VoxDawg
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States must appoint electors. The Constitution doesn't give a whit one way or another how that is accomplished.
It used to be done by the legislative body of each state. President Washington is the only president to receive 100% of the vote of the electoral college. John Adams would have received 100% of the electoral college vote as well but he, being an appointed elector from his state in that election, voted against himself stating that only President Washington should ever be honored with a 100% vote from the electoral college.
There are times that I think it might not be such a bad idea for electors from each of the states to be appointed by their respective state legislatures to cast their electoral votes for the presidency. I'm still up in the air about that one.
This post was edited on 4/29/24 at 2:07 pm
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