An idea out of Georgia has potential to turn this election on its end, and sweep Donald Trump into office, after all.
It's hidden there in the Constitution. "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors." Let those words echo, "In such manner as the legislature thereof may direct." The Constitution grants state legislatures power to select the electors to the Electoral College -- and it doesn't restrict the legislators in any way in how they go about it. It doesn't say they can't retract one set of electors in favor of another. It doesn't say they can't make the change after the popular election has already taken place. It doesn't say they have to abide the popular vote.
"In such manner as the legislature thereof may direct . . . In such manner as the legislature thereof may direct . . . In such manner as the legislature thereof may direct."
It's all up to them.
While this idea has potential. It won't make it. Georgia's Governor Brian Kemp has issued a strong statement against the six legislators from his state who want to replace the existing electors. And, in no other state, to my knowledge, is there even a move to replace electors.
It wouldn't be just. But, it would be all so constitutionally legal.
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