[EL] An Electoral College Tie?

[Paul Lehto]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Rob Richie <rr at fairvote.org> wrote:

> Yes, that's wrong, Frank. Getting rid of human electors would take a
> constitutional amendment.
>
> Why doesn't the NPV Compact *itself *require a constitutional amendment?
This NPV Compact/Contract seems like an attempt at a contractual end-around
of the more difficult burden of amending the Constitution to mitigate or
eliminate unpopular features of the Electoral College.

I do realize there's language and cases about states being able to choose
their method of selecting electors, but that has to have, it seems, some
sort of scope on it, such as the following scope: A state may not choose a
method of selecting electors that constitutes a *de facto* additional
method for amending the Constitution not provided by the Constitution
itself, as duly amended.

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