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caraher

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3. Important comment from that article
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 05:02 PM
Aug 2020
There is a flaw in Palast’s scenario. To prevail in the electoral college when the votes are opened and counted on January 6, one needs “a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed.” The key term in the 12th Amendment is “appointed.” Were a state to withhold its electoral votes then it has not “appointed” electors and effectively disenfranchises itself. In that scenario the “whole number of Elector’s appointed” is less than 538 and whatever that number is, a majority of it elects the President.

Nonetheless the possibility of manipulating the electoral college is even scarier than Palast’s scenario. This law-review article is a must-read:
[link: https://lawecommons.luc.edu/luclj/vol51/iss2/3/|
https://lawecommons.luc.edu/luclj/vol51/iss2/3/]
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