Agreed. This prima facia approach has a key flaw. For it to have any impact in keeping Trump from winning election, it would have to be exercised in a state whose electoral votes he would otherwise win. There are no odds for such an event. It has ZERO chance of occuring. Any state with enough citizens still crazy enough to vote for Trump over ANY other candidate is likely already controlled by Republicans in statewide offices including Secretary of State. And if there happens to be a sane-thinking Secretary of State (Democrat or Republican) who would even hint at exercising this authority, they would be immediately removed from office by a Republican legislative majority.

Sadly, the country's collective sense of civic morality and our checks and balances to preserve it have been so corrupted, the ONLY mechanism that can assure Trump never holds office is the ballot box. And frankly, decades of corporate media, lazy / willfully ignorant citizens and gerrymandering have created a situation where the integrity of the ONE single national election we have for President -- already compromised by the electoral college process -- is an easy target for manipulation by states whose legislatures are often PROFOUNDLY unrepresentative.

brennancenter.org - Gerrymandering loses big

In 2011, Republican legislators enacted an aggressive gerrymander that entrenched party power. Wisconsin is a closely divided state, yet Republicans have held uninterrupted control of both houses of the state legislature for over a decade. In 2012, Republicans won 60 of the 99 seats in the state assembly with just 48.6 percent of the two-party statewide vote. In 2014, Republicans won just 52 percent of the vote but garnered 63 seats.


The ballot box still is the ultimate control knob on this machine. But just barely. And possibly not for much longer.

WTH