Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ...
by dragonwriter on Friday October 30, 2020 @05:46PM
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> What exactly could the federal government do about it? Force the states to nominate electors by some other process?
Yes, with:
> Toss out the states votes?
...as a fallback.
That's actually how the norm of "have a vote of the people in your state with the actual voting on, or completed by, the standard 'election day', and assign electors by a procedure that exists in law prior to that election" rule works. Its a federal law directing what states should do, and threatening that their electoral votes might be disregarded when the electoral vote count occurs in Congress if they don't comply.
Yes, with:
> Toss out the states votes?
...as a fallback.
That's actually how the norm of "have a vote of the people in your state with the actual voting on, or completed by, the standard 'election day', and assign electors by a procedure that exists in law prior to that election" rule works. Its a federal law directing what states should do, and threatening that their electoral votes might be disregarded when the electoral vote count occurs in Congress if they don't comply.