[ExI] Electoral College

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
Adrian Tymes
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2018 6:39 PM
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Subject: Re: [ExI] Electoral College

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 5:34 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
>>... Sure, but an oath to the constitution means a lot to the people who
command the military.  As soon as the next guy is sworn in, they take orders
from him.  They will take no orders from a former president pretending to be
POTUS for life.  You can be sure, if there was a way to declare oneself
president for life, it would have been tried by now.

>...Sure there is.  Just don't let there be a next president.  Suspend the
elections - both popular and any effort by governors to send electors anyway
- that would cause there to be one, at least broadly enough to create
serious doubt about the legitimacy of a replacement.

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But presidents cannot stop state elections.  California has demonstrated
that state governments can outrank the Fed, at least in some areas.  So...
president orders elections suspended, elections go right on ahead anyway (I
would vote anyway (and plenty of others would as well)) then the EC is
chosen.  They don't even need to send anything.  In the age of electronic
communications, the EC members can email their votes to the SCOTUS, which
then swears in the next POTUS, who orders the military to get the previous
guy out of the oval office.

The constitution has stood all these years because it was well-designed.

spike