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A Supreme Court Case That Could Affect the 2020 Election

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A Supreme Court Case That Could Affect the 2020 Election
An elector places her signed ballot into a ballot box in the House of Representatives chamber of the Pennsylvania Capitol Building in Harrisburg on Dec. 19, 2016. Mark Makela/Getty Images
Rob Natelson
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We don’t elect our president directly. The president is elected about six weeks after the November popular vote by presidential electors chosen by the people.

Rob Natelson
Rob Natelson
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Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution: What It Actually Said and Meant” (3rd ed., 2015). He is a contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.”
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