Analysis: Yes, it’s already time to worry about the election system breaking down
Jeff Greenfield is a five-time Emmy-winning network television analyst and author.
Less far-fetched is that a president unconcerned with the consequences of chaos for American democracy could cannily exploit our creaky, sometimes incoherent set of rules about how to deal with a disputed presidential election—and turn the ensuing chaos into a claim to reelection regardless of the vote.
Indeed, there’s no requirement that the legislature has to allow the citizens of its state vote at all. In theirconcurrence, William Rehnquist. Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas appeared to muse that a state legislature would be allowed, under the Constitution, to consider the popular vote merely advisory, and to allocate the state’s electors to another candidate, in defiance of the public’s ballots.
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