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PatrickforO

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11. I would be confident moving forward that courts will uphold it.

Reply to marie999 (Reply #10)

Sun Nov 8, 2020, 07:33 PM

Nov 2020

States all have the ability to manage their electors and tell them how to vote. We are perfectly within our rights, as states, to tell our electors they must vote in accordance with the national popular vote.

But, we'll see, because I'm sure it will be challenged.

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