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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (42904)	4/23/2010 6:02:19 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

"Federal elections are conducted by the individual states" mildly supports my point. "Article I, Section 2, paragraph 2 of the U.S. Constitution gives each chamber the power to "determine the rules of its proceedings." - That isn't about federal elections, that's about the precdeings of each chamber of congress. "Direct elections were mostly held only for the U.S. House of Representatives and state legislatures" comes much later in the article, and isn't part of that statement. Its like your cuttign out different words in a newspaper and pasting them together to claim the newspaper says something it does not. In addition to your argument not making much sense, you seem to be arguing for something only slightly relevant to the issue at hand. You seem to be arguing that the constitution gives the federal government power over federal elections. I haven't said anything about that one way or another. If it does give the feds such power, that would not by itself preclude states from regulating in the area (unless the constitution also says that states can not regulate in that area), it would only mean the supremacy clause applies and any federal law would overrule state laws and regulations. If there is a federal statute that outlaws all federal regulation again please quote it (and no you have not done so yet). There are federal regulations over federal elections, and presumably they have supremacy either generally over federal elections, or over parts of that area. But there are also state regulations. Even if the federal government has supremacy over every part of federal regulations that would not preclude the states from regulating, absent a direct prohibition of such regulation, but there is no such prohibition.