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treestar

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2. We'd need another Congress and POTUS but
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 01:44 PM
Dec 2016

the Founders could not have imagined this kind of thing.

Maybe something akin to the REAL ID act, where the federal government imposed requirements on state ID processes. A federal act requiring certain voting standards for states, at least as to the federal elections they conduct. If challenged in courts, the interest in having fair elections and accurate ones is certainly a very strong government interest.

Also some provision for what happens if fraud is proven and for transfer of power should it be necessary.

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Constitutional Question [View all] itcfish Dec 2016 OP
No provisions. elleng Dec 2016 #1
We'd need another Congress and POTUS but treestar Dec 2016 #2
No such thing. Even a convicted criminal can become president bowens43 Dec 2016 #3
Yeah, but Pence, itcfish Dec 2016 #4
Not McConnel. Orin Hatch is president pro tem dumbcat Dec 2016 #16
The question is not "who" can become president, but "how" they become president. SecularMotion Dec 2016 #19
There is no Constitutional provision MichMary Dec 2016 #5
It would have to itcfish Dec 2016 #8
Okay, MichMary Dec 2016 #13
Loophole? world wide wally Dec 2016 #6
Another failure of the founders treestar Dec 2016 #15
The remedy for such a situation is the same dumbcat Dec 2016 #17
The house, when counting the electoral votes, unblock Dec 2016 #7
Which brings up a couple interesting questions dumbcat Dec 2016 #18
The state's House delegation would decide SickOfTheOnePct Dec 2016 #20
Interesting question. H2O Man Dec 2016 #9
If Sam Ervin were still alive, Hello Twitty wouldn't be so smug. mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2016 #10
I don't think anything has changed HeartachesNhangovers Dec 2016 #11
It would be up to Congress. kentuck Dec 2016 #12
A Congress controlled by MichMary Dec 2016 #14
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