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Independent State Legislature Theory

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Are State Legislatures Able to Subvert the Results of an Election?

This would be revolutionary, not just in how power is divided in elections, but also like Rhee was saying, we're talking about rewriting the election laws in essentially all 50 states. The federal constitution does not have an express right to vote for the president. So, a state could say, you know what, we're going back to how it was. There's no popular vote for presidential elections anymore. We're just going to have the legislature choose the electors itself. They could do it right now, except in nearly every state, the state constitution says you can't.

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