Can Arnold replace the people in the electoral college?

[arcane1]

I don't know that much about the details of the whole thing and how it works, but I seem to recall that Florida was threatening to do that if the recount suits didn't go their way...

:shrug:

[Cush]

1. not that I'm aware of

think the State Leg does that stuff

[Cicero]

2. Not Arnold, but the CA legislature can

From the U.S. Constitution:

Section. 1.
Clause 2: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

Later,

[arcane1]

3. ok, that tells me that the CA legs can direct...

HOW to choose the electors...

I wonder what method they chose?

[dpbrown]

7. In most states, that means the way the legislature wrote the statutes

Although in Florida, the Republican legislature was threatening to appoint a raft of electors because of the hold up, if Bush didn't win the count.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Tom Feeney lawyered the Florida Constitution and claimed

he had the authority to do it. I suspect there would have been civil rioting had he tried.

[The Zanti Regent]

5. ANY LEGISLATURE CAN CHOOSE ELECTOR SLATES

What scares me most is if Clark wins a state like South Carolina and the GOP controlled legislature throws it out and picks GOP electors...

[UnAmericanJoe]

6. I'll have to look it up

But hasn't that happened only one time in our history?