• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    No. Instead they’re gonna have state legislature throw out the results of the election. Which they can probably do, Constitutionally-speaking.

    The State legislature pick the electors. Just because they all use a popular vote to do it doesn’t mean they can’t change the law in between the voting in November and the actual election in December.

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      5 months ago

      Ha, I’ve answered that two or three times to other people here!

      I agree that changing or interpreting the law to pick stricty conservative electors is their next strategy, but I don’t think it’s going to be as simple or successful as they imagine.

      Sort of like how they didn’t realize sending in forged documents was very likely to fail.

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        5 months ago

        Forged documents are illegal. Changing laws regarding how electors are selected isn’t.

        Heck - way back in 2000 the Supreme Court hinted at the tactic in the majority opinion in Bush v Gore, saying that the Florida legislature probably could have just selected electors directly after the vote.

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          5 months ago

          Actually, a lot of the fake electors tried to use the defense that there’s no specific law against fake elector documents.

          Colorado just signed a law that says fake electors are illegal.

          Landscape’s a lot turnier then it looks