During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off. Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Yes, the number is electoral votes available just goes down. I suppose you could have only one state voting and have it decide the Presidential election? But you wouldn’t have much of a Congress. Every rep is elected every two years, so the house would be emptied of every non-voting state. The senate would loose 1/3 of its members. Without full elections, we really don’t have a government.

    Of course they could have elections but leave the President off the ballot, but I think that would be harder to sell. Even if you somehow felt Trump could have a third, unconditional term, he still has to be elected to that term. How you could have an election but not for President I can’t even imagine.

    • overthere@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 hours ago

      Does the number of electoral votes go down, though? It would likely violate many state constitutions, but the state governments could just assign all of their electoral votes without having an election to decide them. This is all unconstitutional anyway.