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To: LdSentinal; holdonnow

Would sure make Presidential Campaigns cheaper and easier.

Not sure about the Constitutionality of doing it via ballot initiative, though I think the Constitution is pretty silent about appointing electors.


8 posted on 08/21/2007 5:33:14 PM PDT by IslandJeff (Luke 5)
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To: IslandJeff
Not sure about the Constitutionality of doing it via ballot initiative, though I think the Constitution is pretty silent about appointing electors.

I agree about that. The US Constitution is very explicit about the state legislatures having the authority to determine how electors are chosen.

13 posted on 08/21/2007 5:36:05 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: IslandJeff

From Article II, Section I, of the US Constitution:

“Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress...”


49 posted on 08/21/2007 6:00:38 PM PDT by ops33 (Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
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