Quote Originally Posted by CaveDog View Post
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.
This is a semantic argument that has no relevance to the current situation. Whether states could choose some other method to select electors is irrelevant. They have all chosen popular elections as the method, and Congress has exercised their authority to set the time for choosing electors as November 3. States cannot choose some other method after that date.