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  • Can the Electoral College be subverted by “faithless electors”? (goes beyond faithless electors -- legislature can award electors as the see fit if fraud)

    11/04/2020 8:32:06 PM PST · by doug from upland · 49 replies
    brookings ^ | orig Oct 21, 2020
    (I have been talking about this possibility for several days) HERE IS THE INTERESTING PART: According to various scenarios, however, leaders of several swing-state, Republican-majority legislatures, using their federal constitutional authority, might appoint separate slates of electors, thereby setting up conflicts with the presumptively faithful electors certified by state executive authorities. This could happen in key states like Pennsylvania, where the governor is a Democrat but the legislature is controlled by Republicans. Legislatures might claim, for example, a fraud-riven popular vote that renders the state-certified electors unrepresentative of the legitimate popular vote. Or they might claim that the vote count...