States have the right to run their elections however they choose to do, provided that it doesn't cause problems with the federal races on their ballots, or do anything that violates federal law with regards to the federal races. They can do whatever the hell they want with STATE and LOCAL races, but if they do anything in the administration of their elections that is illegal for FEDERAL elections or causes other problems with the federal races, then the federal courts have every right to intercede. I think we can all agree that the race for POTUS is one of the more important federal races.
States can run their elections any way they want with regards to how their ballots are designed, what counting methods they use, how much early voting they want to have, whether they want vote by mail, whether they want voter ID, etc. Federal courts and SCOTUS have never been willing to interfere in legal disputes over things like this. But banning the candidate who is demolishing every other candidate from both parties in the polls from being on their state ballot in a nakedly partisan, extremely obvious move? That's something that's never been done before, and it's about as blatant a form of election interference as you could ever have. It doesn't just affect Minnesota, it affects all 49 other states as well. I'm willing to bet a conservative SCOTUS isn't going to sit back and let that kind of shit stand.
That is so true. The gist of federal law, when it comes to the Presidential election, is that each district will elect three people to represent their chosen Presidential nominee in the electoral college. The election is certified according to state law and then the electoral college votes in the state capital. Then the results of that election are sent to Washington to be certified at the federal level. For US House and Senate races, documents need to be sent to the archivist in order to that member to officially hold the seat.
States have the right to run their elections however they choose to do, provided that it doesn't cause problems with the federal races on their ballots, or do anything that violates federal law with regards to the federal races. They can do whatever the hell they want with STATE and LOCAL races, but if they do anything in the administration of their elections that is illegal for FEDERAL elections or causes other problems with the federal races, then the federal courts have every right to intercede. I think we can all agree that the race for POTUS is one of the more important federal races.
States can run their elections any way they want with regards to how their ballots are designed, what counting methods they use, how much early voting they want to have, whether they want vote by mail, whether they want voter ID, etc. Federal courts and SCOTUS have never been willing to interfere in legal disputes over things like this. But banning the candidate who is demolishing every other candidate from both parties in the polls from being on their state ballot in a nakedly partisan, extremely obvious move? That's something that's never been done before, and it's about as blatant a form of election interference as you could ever have. It doesn't just affect Minnesota, it affects all 49 other states as well. I'm willing to bet a conservative SCOTUS isn't going to sit back and let that kind of shit stand.
That is so true. The gist of federal law, when it comes to the Presidential election, is that each district will elect three people to represent their chosen Presidential nominee in the electoral college. The election is certified according to state law and then the electoral college votes in the state capital. Then the results of that election are sent to Washington to be certified at the federal level. For US House and Senate races, documents need to be sent to the archivist in order to that member to officially hold the seat.