Re: Should the Florida legislature appoint electors?

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From: Nitin Batra
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 00:00

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> supposed to represent the interests of a specific state, and a
> vice-president is not. (Of course, they were dumb enough to vote her in,

The requirement that only an inhabitant of the state can be elected
senator should be repealed.

I think the only thing that motivates a person to represent the state that
elected him/her, is the prospect of re-election, not whether he/she is an
inhabitant of the state.

The second problem with the requirement is that a candidate can die during
the campaign, like Mel Carnahan, and thus could not be an inhabitant of
any state at the time of election. This disqualification would be the
ultimate motivation for assassination of rival candidates. The only thing
to prevent such an assassination is if the dead are put on the ballot
anyway, and if elected, governor appoints replacement, special election,
yadda yadda.

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From: Nitin Batra <nbatra@rigel.oac.uci.edu>
Subject: Re: Should the Florida legislature appoint electors?
Date: 2000/11/25
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