• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Well considering the states choose the electors and the electoral college has no obligation to follow the will of the people, no, I don’t remember that.

    It’s been a big giant hole in our system since day one and the fact that we refuse to patch it means that was always intended to be an illusion of choice.

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      1 month ago

      I’m ironically pointing to SCOTUS saying that even if an insurrectionist cannot be president, and the state of Colorado has a law that the secretary of state must check eligibility, that Colorado cannot bar said insurrectionist, because reasons including a “patchwork” of the states and it must be Congress who makes this decision. I guess if the ballot in Georgia and Florida don’t have identical candidates lists, that’s a constitutional crisis?

      And I know it’s different but it’s not really. Ohio just wants democrats to stay home so Brown loses.