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- From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
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- Subject: Re: Censoring information , Is it possible tomorrow?
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:58:19 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.101653.21824@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov16.101653.21824@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
- wr001b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (william e raftery) writes:
- > Wouldn't there need to be a constituional amendment to
- > change the day of voting. I don't have a copy of the Constituion handy, but
- > I seem to remember that the second Tuesday in November is in there
- > somewhere.
-
- No, I think that that's merely statutory. The Constitutional requirement
- (Article II, section 1, paragraph 4) is much broader: "The Congress may
- determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall
- give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States."
-
- Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
- The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
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