The Twelfth & Twentieth Amendments are the two examples in our history of the people who made our Constitution - the original one, then the 18th Amendment - basically saying "my bad, we got that wrong."
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Worth recalling that they expected the electors to exercise independent judgments, not to be a pro forma thing. There is a strong argument imho, given the changes since then, to make it all automatic.
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And yet, none of those changes were ever codified into the constitution.
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It doesn’t cost seven dollars to recognize a bad argument
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Much more uniform group with far fewer states, but there is clear precedent. The change was very minor as well. We also moved the inauguration date up quite a bit after the debacle of 1933.
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I think it’s worth examining the constitutionality of the Electoral Count Act. The 12th amendment simply says the President of the Senate shall open all the certificates and then the votes will be counted. It says nothing of the sort that Congress has the authority to reject
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The certification then wasn’t pro forma tho, with precinct-level results on CNN — electors were thought to be able to exercise independence from “the great beast”
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I think it would have been better to put the inauguration in early/mid-February and the certification a similar amount of time later in January, just to keep weirdness like the GA runoffs issue from happening and to give extra time for legit certification issues.
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