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pbrower2a
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« on: April 07, 2015, 12:32:06 PM »

Could Michigan and/or Wisconsin retroactively change the EV allocation to proportional or by CD prior to the meeting of the electors in December?  Serious question, because I recall the Florida legislature threatening to assign their electors to Bush by legislative action if the recount didn't stop.

No. Retroactive changes in electoral law to favor one side after a prior election  makes a mockery of the vote. Such would have thrown the 2000 election to Al Gore had it been done in Florida or in several states that Dubya clearly won.
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« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2015, 12:13:11 AM »

Really, the States elect the President. We the People don't.
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« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2015, 11:59:57 AM »

It may also be a way of preventing states from casting spurious votes. Suppose that North Dakota gave twenty million votes to its prairie dogs and those votes all went Republican, and no state did anything similarly screwy, in a Presidential election based on the popular vote alone.   
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