This. I´m not a betting man, but I´d bet my mustache, that the Orange Bastard junta will try to use this as a test balloon for starting a Ermächtigungsgesetz of their own. Like “Oh, polling places are a public health risk, lets delay this elecation, any election, for an indefintate time, ´kay?”
Cut to Mar-a-Lago where Trump and investors are consulting on where to park their money.
Maybe this will finally be the impetus to allow for nationwide paper ballots.
(hard to type that while keeping a straight face)
Except that the Federal government doesn’t hold the election. The States do. (And the Constitution doesn’t specifically prescribe how they do it.) This is at least partly intended constitutionally as a check against the President and Vice President having a thumb on the scale in their own elections.
The end result in a Presidential election is that the state legislature prescribes a method for choosing the state’s electors, and the governor of the state certifies how they vote. If a state were to close the polls, its legislature would retain the privilege and duty to appoint a slate of electors to represent the state in the Presidential election in December.
There are weird constitutional questions that would surround, for instance, a situation where a governor refused to sign a certificate of ascertainment for the electors that the legislature appointed, or the certificate of vote for their ballots. The resolution of those questions, under current law, is reserved to the incoming Congress.
As with any constitutional crisis, the driver for the outcome will be political rather than legal. But it is likely that an attempt by Trump to cancel the popular election would have effect only in the states whose legislatures support him - and those are likely the ones whose populace does as well.
The repub controlled legislatures will follow orders from Trump. The ensuing confusion and chaos would be exactly what Il Douche needs to call the results of “for the good of the nation.” Resolved by the incoming Congress? There would not be one. Constitutional crisis on steroids. Trumpian courts. Ugliness, man.
cool
Just to be clear, the democrat line is that Sanders is too out there, too socialist. Fuck everything, seriously.
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