US Constitution
Ed Still
72477.260 at compuserve.com
Mon Oct 28 17:23:12 PST 1996
Tom Round wrote
>Otherwise the Compacts Clause could get ludicrously wide in
>its breadth - it could, perhaps, even strike down the accepted practice of
>having all or most >State's elections on the first Tuesday after the first
>Monday in November ..?
Actually, the election date is set by Congress. Article II, Section 1,
clause 4, says, " The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the
Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall
be the same throughout the United States."
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