Originally Posted by
CaveDog
I understand what you’re saying but people keep insisting it’s a Constitutional thing when it’s not. It may be a violation of state law but not Constitutional law. The Constitution in no way mandates popular elections for President, much less regulates them. It delegates to state legislators the authority to appoint electors, specifies how the electors vote and delegates to Congress the authority to set election times. It’s silent by design about how states choose electors. There are federal statutes which can be interpreted as prohibiting changing methods after Election Day but those are federal law, not Constitutional law.