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Saying on Faux that the supreme court has to take the case.
Rice4VP
(1,235 posts)JI7
(89,248 posts)brettdale
(12,381 posts)Not sure, video was on twitter, and I just fast forward to the last 30 seconds.
RockRaven
(14,966 posts)Baylor.
Of course, this explains why he appears on FUX but not anywhere real reporters exist.
FelineOverlord
(3,578 posts)helpisontheway
(5,007 posts)So he wants them to do that in PA,GA,NM and Arizona?
still_one
(92,187 posts)mucifer
(23,542 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)The parties create slates of electors. In Pennsylvania, say, the Democratic Party is going to pick 20 of the hardest-core D's in the state who aren't in a federal office (the Constitution forbids federal officeholders from being electors) and the GOP will do the same. After the vote is tabulated, the governor will tell the electors of the candidate who won the popular vote to meet at the state capital to cast their votes for president and vice president. The odds of the 20 best Democrats in the state of Pennsylvania getting together and saying, "fuck Joe and Kamala, fuck the voters and fuck the country, we think Donald Trump deserves a second term" are less than zero.
Sugarcoated
(7,722 posts)have nothing to do with it?
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Sugarcoated
(7,722 posts)You said 20 Democratic electors and 20 Republican electors get chosen. Is it just the 20 Democratic electors that do the voting in December?
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Before the election, each party provides a list of the electors they will use if their candidate wins the state. (In Idaho we go one step farther: we print the names of the four electors for each party on the ballot. I don't know if any other state does that, and in a lot of states they couldn't - imagine how big the ballot would have to be in California!) Once the votes are counted and the winner is known, the electors for the candidate who won the state are notified that they must be at the statehouse on the prescribed date - the Monday after the second Wednesday in December; this year it's December 14 - to cast their votes for president. The electors for the candidates who didn't carry the state are thanked for their service and released.
This is what happens...
First, you did not vote for Joe Biden. You voted for a slate of Candidates for Elector, although Vice President Biden's name was on the ballot.
After each state certifies its vote, the governor prepares a Certificate of Ascertainment. On it is listed the names of the electors chosen by the voters, and the number of votes each elector received. (All the electors for one party received the same number of votes.) The candidates for elector who didn't win are also listed, together with the number of votes they received. The governor then signs the certificate and six copies are made. The state seal is affixed to each. The original is sent by registered mail to the Archivist of the United States. The other six are retained until the electors meet, and are issued to them.
December 8 is the last date election results can be contested.
On December 14, the electors meet in their state's capitol building. They will cast, by paper ballot, one vote for president and one for vice president. The votes will be counted, and a Certificate of the Vote will be prepared. It will list the names of persons receiving votes and the number of votes cast for each. The electors will sign the Certificate of the Vote. Five copies will be made and sealed, and they will be paired with a Certificate of Ascertainment. They will then be sent by registered mail to:
1 goes to the President of the United States Senate, who is Mike Pence.
2 go to the Secretary of State of their own state.
2 go to the Archivist of the United States.
1 goes to the Presiding Judge of the US District Court in the district they live in.
The certificates must reach the President of the Senate by December 23.
If the certificates do not reach the President of the Senate by then, he will request the Secretary of State to transmit by registered mail one of the copies that official holds. He will also send a messenger to the Presiding Judge to transmit the certificate he or she holds "by hand to the seat of government." (Translation: "get on an airplane with that form and bring it to us."
On January 6 at 1 pm, the two Houses of Congress will meet in the House Chamber to count the votes. The President of the Senate will open each envelope individually and hand the certificates inside to a squad of four tellers, two from each chamber. The tellers read the votes and make a list. If one ticket has 270 votes, the President of the Senate will announce the results and state that they "shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected President and Vice President."
There is a clause allowing for challenges to any state's vote: One member of each chamber must file a written request to challenge a state's vote. They hold a joint conference, and then the houses separate to vote as to whether to accept or reject the state's vote. Both the House and Senate must agree to exclude any contested votes, which means it ain't gonna happen because the Democratic-controlled House will vote that shit down every single time.
In short, sometime in the afternoon of January 6 Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. will be officially elected president of the United States, Kamala Devi Harris will be officially elected Vice President of the United States, and there is not one thing Dictator Trump can do about it.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11641
StevieM
(10,500 posts)Gothmog
(145,176 posts)spanone
(135,831 posts)skip fox
(19,357 posts)state legislators have the constitutional duty to select their own slate of Electoral College electors if they feel fraud swung the election for Biden.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Looked st his wiki and shocked he started out as a Democrat