On Fri, 01 May 2020 16:53:55 -0400, John wrote:

On Fri, 01 May 2020 14:06:37 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 01 May 2020 09:17:48 -0400, John wrote:

On Fri, 01 May 2020 02:39:37 -0400, wrote:

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Covid%20Mask.jpg

Yeah it is a small step but most tyrannies start with small steps. It
took Hitler 5 years to burn down the reich stag.

When you let temporary emergencies give the government power to
eviscerate the bill of rights, you are plotting the path to the end of
freedom. This is a bump in the road and we will get over it with a
little social distancing in the biggest part of the country,. You
folks in the fetid cities have your own problems but don't project
them out on us.

You're sounding like Biden. You think Trump will cancel the election?

It is not up to trump. The state legislatures decide how they will
choose their electors.

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Article II Section 1 (2). Each state shall appoint, in such manner as
the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the
whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be
entitled in the Congress: but no senator or representative, or person
holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be
appointed an elector.
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The 23d amendment says congress shall decide how DCs electors are
chosen.

The law setting the date for the election was passed in the Tyler
administration but it does not actually say who gets to vote or if
there is actually any voting at all.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
states of America in Congress assembled, That the electors of Presi-
dent and Vice President shall be appointed in each State on the Tues-
day next after the first Monday in the month of November of the year
in which they are to be appointed: Provided, That each State may bylaw
provide for the filling of any vacancy or vacancies which may occur in
its college of electors when such college meets to give its electoral
vote: And provided, also, when any State shall have held an election
for the purpose of choosing electors, and shall fail to make a choice
on the day aforesaid, then the electors may be appointed on a
subsequent day in such manner as the State shall by law
provide.APPROVED, January 23, 1845.
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And that's all true for a Presidentially declared national emergency? If you're
going to throw in Hitler, isn't that what he would have done?

Just stating the facts. The state legislatures are who decides how
electors are chosen, Not the president and not the governor as Harry
would claim. Without new legislation, the current state voting laws
will prevail. (as much as some people hated it in 2000). The various
state legislators could put up a "vote by mail" bill tonight if they
wanted it. We already have is so we don't have a dog in that fight.