Can someone explain to me what's going to happen Jan 6th?

[ChloeForKerry]

I don't get a chance to hang out here much so may I get the lowdown, please?

Much appreciated!:hi:

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

1. The electoral college votes.

[ChloeForKerry]

3. I know that part

are we going to get a senator to do anything?
point me a thread I can read?

[bush_is_wacko]

4. No Senator has publicly announced his/her intention to object

and they won't do so. C-Span says they are going to cover it at 1pm eastern time on Jan. 6th. We will all have to watch and see. In the meantime, we are all busy emailing, faxing,and phoning EVERY Senator and urging him/her to object. If you have the time I would urge you to do the same. They used the excuse that nobody asked them last time, let's see if they try and use the same excuse THIS time. We are ALL asking now!

[Speck Tater]

2. I'm going to win the lottery.

Well, I can dream, can't I?

[Webster Green]

5. Very likely , the final nail in the coffin for democracy in the US....

And a big welcome for our new system of fascism.

Unless some US Senator quickly grows a spine, and provides the momentum to get rid of the rigged elections system.

[Salomonity]

6. They count the electoral votes

On Jan 6, Congress counts the electoral votes. The electoral college has already voted in mid December--for Bush. :(

What happens now is just the counting.
John Conyers (D MI) has been hinting he's planning to challenge the Ohio electors, claiming the election there was a fraud, and that their votes shouldn't be counted, pending investigation.

If a senator joins in his challenge , then both houses of congress talk for two hours, and they both vote separately on the Ohio slate. DU is trying to draft a senator, but I'm pessimistic. It'll be a straight majority vote in each house. Unless both houses vote to reject the Ohio slate, it'll be counted and Bush wins. Nobody seriously expects that we'll win the vote: most democrats have apparently indicated they don't take the challenge very seriously. It really hurt us badly that Kerry conceeded: it's very hard to stand up and try to swing an election for someone who admits he really lost.

I think honestly we've been making a major strategic mistake here. Let's suppose we actually get a senator to challenge. We'll get immediately voted down by a catastropic margin <98-2 in the senate, probably>. It'll get five minutes on the nightly news, and nobody will remember. The GOP will spin it as "so-and-so wanted to throw out several million votes to put Kerry over the top". They're much more ruthless about spin, and they control the media. This sort of head-on attack on the GOP machine will just give the left a bloody nose. We ought to see if we can't find something cleverer to do.

I'm sorry, but that's how I see it.

[bardgal]

7. A huge meltdown, and many people overdosing on.....

Zoloft™ when nothing happens when Conyers challenges the electoral vote.

Again:
- I WANT THESE PEOPLE IN PRISON.
- I WANT ALL E-VOTING MACHINES SCRAPED.
- I WANT ELECTIONS DONE ON PAPER & HAND COUNTED (I don't care if it takes a month)
- I WANT AN HONEST, ETHICAL GOVERNMENT, that is the ENVY OF THE WORLD. NOT this hideously corrupted sesspool which it's become!
- I WANT MY GOVERNMENT, who works for me, TO WORK FOR ME, and REPRESENT ME.

But I can't delude myself into thinking anything is going to happen. I have ZERO Faith in these LAZY WHORES in DC.