floridafan
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the consitution says differently. it's not a hallucinated constitutionality like abortion is.
As always you are completely wrong:
I dont know what constitution you refer to, but here are the facts:
Some states did change election procedures without legislation, including some that supported Donald Trump. But experts said this is common.
"It is often the case that there are gaps in election statutes that state and local election officials routinely fill according to their delegated authority," said Rebecca Green, an election law professor at the College of William and Mary. "So to say that all decisions about how elections are run must emanate from the legislature is not consistent with explicit delegated authority to state election officials."
"No statutory scheme can cover every required decision and contingency in election administration, especially in pandemic conditions."
Facing the challenge of conducting elections during the COVID-19 outbreaks in the spring and fall of 2020, many states made changes to election procedures. Some of those actions were bills passed by state legislatures while others were orders or executive actions by governors or state election officials.
Many of these orders postponed primaries or made changes to encourage voting by mail. In Michigan, which supported Trump in 2016, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, announced in May 2020 that the state would send all registered voters an absentee-ballot application. Paxton cited Benson’s action in his lawsuit, but the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled in September that Benson acted lawfully. Michigan’s constitution includes the right to vote by absentee ballot in the 40 days before an election.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/oct/15/steve-scalises-flawed-argument-states-didnt-follow/