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SteveRogers
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« on: April 07, 2015, 12:13:49 PM »

If Republicans still controlled both the House and Senate at that point, they'd immediately begin trying to pass a Constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college. I don't think it would make it out of congress though.

There'd be a renewed push in states like Michigan to allocate the state's EVs by congressional district.

Maybe some Republican states would jump on board the NPVIC. 
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SteveRogers
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« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2015, 01:10:14 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.

When you cast a ballot in a presidential election, you're really casting a ballot for a slate of electors. While a Michigan voter might check a box for "Hillary Clinton," theoretically they could look up the list of the names of the group of 16 electors that they're actually casting a vote for.

I think the problem with this particular plan would be that the people of the state would have already cast ballots with the understanding that they were casting a ballot for the whole slate of electors. You couldn't retroactively pretend that the voters had cast a ballot announcing a preference that some proportion of those electors be chosen, or that they cast a ballot for one particular elector retroactively assigned to their congressional district.    

Now whether a state legislature could retroactively ditch the election results and assign the state's electors to the national popular vote winner is another question entirely...
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