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Usurping the Voters (washingtonpost.com) by Decius at 3:43 pm EDT, Jul 19, 2004
] "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional ] right to vote for electors for the President of the ] United States," the court said, "unless and until the ] state legislature chooses a statewide election as the ] means to implement its power to appoint members of the ] Electoral College."
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Usurping the Voters (washingtonpost.com)
by k at 11:00 am EDT, Jul 20, 2004

] "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional
] right to vote for electors for the President of the
] United States," the court said, "unless and until the
] state legislature chooses a statewide election as the
] means to implement its power to appoint members of the
] Electoral College."

[ Well, that's a scary article, even if i put the odds of such outright disenfranchisement right around the death-by-falling-space-debris level. The fact that it's possible is completely absurd. -k]