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BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

The president doesn’t control that. The federal government doesn’t even control that.

That’s a state by state situation.

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NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Correct:

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

US Constitution, Article 1, Section 4

Technically there’s no requirement that any of the citizens of a state be allowed to vote in their state’s elections.

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- NJSpradlin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  A guy I know argues that a ‘better system’ would that the individual shouldn’t be able to vote in higher tier elections. The individual should be able to vote for their local reps. Local reps vote for the fewer regional/county reps, those vote for state, and state then vote for congressional, who then vote and elect the president.
  
  But, if you think Russian (or enemy nation states) were able to infiltrate and sway the 2024 presidential election across 130 million voters… how easy do you think it’d be to do the same across Congress? Hell, they’ve already infiltrated that.
  
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