Pierce: The Constitution Simply Was Not Built for This

[mcar]

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55832/election-vote-totals-altered/

Drip, drip, drip.

Time brings us our now biweekly revelation that the Russian ratfcking of the 2016 presidential election went far beyond revealing John Podesta's recipes to the world, and circulating the mean things someone once said about Bernie Sanders. This is approaching nightmare status....

For the moment, let's put aside whether or not this was done to benefit one remarkably orange presidential candidate. If your goal was to sow chaos generally, this is precisely the way you'd go about doing it. You wouldn't have to monkeyfck with the vote totals. (However, at this point…) If you screwed with the registration data, you could gum up the balloting procedure until people gave up and went home. But, then again, the alterations. That's a loaded phrase we haven't heard before. Who knows that next week's will be?...

If it is revealed that any vote total in any state was subject to "alterations," then that's the ballgame. An unprecedented political crisis of legitimacy would erupt immediately for which the Constitution has no adequate provision or means of redress. (You can't have the election all over again. Not in this republic.) I suppose that, if there were conclusive evidence that the Trump campaign knew this was going on, and arranged itself to profit by it, the political pressure on the president* to resign might be irresistible. But, honestly, I'm guessing here. I haven't the faintest idea what would come next, except for toasts with high-end vodka in some cubicle near Moscow.

[madamesilverspurs]

1. In the event of "crisis of legitimacy"

there might be no provision in the Constitution. But there would be a remedy; unfortunately, its implementation would depend on honorable action by the current congressional majority, and therein lies the nightmare.


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[Cha]

2. IOW.. we are fcked.

Thanks, mcar

[mcar]

3. So depressing

[Cha]

4. Yeah, but I'm using reverse psychology..

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[sheshe2]

5. Presidency for Profit!?!

[mcar]

6. That's all Trumpco has ever been about

And Rs for 40 years before him.

[Amaryllis]

7. Been saying that since the election. They didnt have computers or hacking when they wrote it.

They couldn't conceive of anything on this scale, where most of the line of succession is complicit.