We know that January 20th is a "drop dead", last ditch date for the President to leave office and for the President-Elect to move into the White House. This is set in stone by the Constitution,and cannot be delayed without a Constitutional Amendment.
We also know that Electors cannot be elected by their States in December until the election has been Certified. The results of these elections must be certified and announced by the U.S. House of Representatives on January 6th after the 538 State Electors have announced their Presidential preference. Most states have chosen their Electors on a winner take all basis for the Presidential preference.
If no Presidential candidate receives the required 270 votes the election is determined by a "Contingency" procedure established by the 12th Amendment. The incoming newly elected Congress then meets to choose one of the top three electoral vote winners as President of the United States. The Senate chooses the Vice-President the same way.
Now here is what, I suspect, most of us didn't know. This process was modified by the 20th Amendment in 1933 that reduces the length of the Lame Duck Congress; AND INSTEAD, THE INCOMING NEWLY ELECTED CONGRESS/SENATE CONDUCTS THE CONTINGENT ELECTIONS! If that Congress has not chosen a President by January 20 then the Vice-President Elect!, becomes acting President.
But we haven't forgotten Nancy Pelosi. Sec.3 of the 20th Amendment also specifies that IF neither a President or Vice-President is elected IN TIME for the January 20th Inauguration, then the Speaker of the House becomes acting President until the incoming House selects a President or the Senate selects a Vice-President. This is according to the Presidential Succession Act of 1947. They must continue voting until they do.
Is this an invitation to deceit, manipulation and fraud?Let us count the ways.
First, Mail-In Balloting, of course, is ripe for fraud, dumping, shredding, delaying, counterfeiting you can fill-in the rest. I live in a conservative area of a very Blue State that has voted by mail for many years. The heavily populated Liberal/Marxist area of our State has been gaming this effectively for a long time.
Second, their assertions that there is no difference between Absentee Ballots and Mail-in Ballots is, of course, a lie. Absentee Ballots must be requested, the voter Identified as a legal resident. Upon return it is logged in, dated, and certified. If you want to check that your ballot has been received by your Elections Office you can. With Mail-in balloting none of these safeguards are in place and you will never know if it was counted or disappeared into a democrat dark hole somewhere. Are the D's capable of discovering or losing ballots in a swamp? Just ask Pam Bondi, former Attorney General of Florida, about the 2000 Presidential election.
If Blue State Dems cant beat Trump straight-up they can take forever to count the ballots(two months and counting for the special Congressional election in New York by Mail-In ballot); and delay or not certify State Electors in time for Congressional certification by the mandatory January 6th date.
This will begin the wheels turning for a Contingent Election; a process that can be shamelessly manipulated if democrats retain a majority in the new Congress that will conduct it.
Mail-In Ballots will give these people an unrivaled opportunity to scam both the Electoral system and the Constitution. Is there any doubt they would try.
We need to call them out and encourage our President to make clear he will not accept a Corrupted Mail-In Ballot system crafted to produce a dystopian Marxist remnant of this Land we love, honor, and make our homes.
They also need to know and feel in their bones that we will not accept it either.
i’m not reading all that because i won’t entertain it.
let’s make sure Trump wins decisively
Even with the cheating.
The Left has been fantasizing about it for a while.
Trump will get over 270.
[PELOSI PRESIDENCY]
Hey don’t scare me like that.
That could cause the Botox to crack on Nancy’s face.
I think that if Pelosi is elected by the House then it will signal the end of the American experiment with democracy. The constitution might provide that procedure but no one will respect the result.
Imma say it right now: any chance that Piglosi gets anywhere NEAR the Oval Office and there WILL be a civil war in this country. It will NOT however be “civil” ... it’ll be anything but and the other side is in for one hell of a fight that they cannot and will not win.
Safe Harbor law
35 days to wrap up counts. Do you think America will say “Okay keep counting we’ll wait?”Do you think the Demorats can really get Pelosi as president just by sitting and refusing to count votes untill the law says that she is the next president?” Oh but the Constitution says... And that’s that? The USDC disregarded 1st Amendment already
The answer to your question is settled by 3 USC 19(a)(1). “Failure to qualify” regulates electoral chaos over who won. If we don’t know who won the electoral college, certified by congress, then Nancy Pelosi is Acting President until the mess is sorted out.
3 U.S.C. §19. Vacancy in offices of both President and Vice President; officers eligible to act
(a)(1) If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is neither a President nor Vice President to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, upon his resignation as Speaker and as Representative in Congress, act as President.
The HOR votes BUT NOT AS INDIVIDUALS. Each state delegation gets one vote. More Republican states than library states. We Win!
What makes you think the new congress can be certified if POTUS can’t be certified?
Also, once the counting is complete, certification will occur and the elected POTUS will take office.
By doing what?
The new House that is sworn in will choose the President if neither has 270 electoral votes. Each state gets one vote. At this time, the GOP has a slim margin in control of state delegations. But who knows what will happen with the new House. Dems are pissed that a small state like Wyoming in this process has as much power as California -— one vote.
You did leave out one important fact. When the House votes for President, each state gets only one vote. If a state’s delegation cannot decide—say it has 4 dem Reps and 4 Republican Reps, it gets no vote. Wyoming = California in this vote.
No.
That would only be possible if the State Legislatures fail to appoint their Electors.
And if there were no elections, Mrs. Pelosi's term as a representative ends on January 3, 2021 so she would no longer hold any office.
I’d love to be a fly on the wall at Rat Party Headquarters as the lawyers plot and scheme.
What is the standing in court for mail in ballots?
People can apply for absentee ballots, no problem.
This cannot stand up to a legitimate court.
Well lookee that: State of Emergency declared, Executive order over-rides traditional "administrative" aspect of election, Voting practice policy changed with the scribble of a pen. Hmmmm.
Trump "trumps" this action using Supremacy clause with a Federal EO that not only requires Voter ID, but invalidates Mail-in voting everywhere across the board, as an electoral Civil Rights enforcement issue -- one has no provenance for Mail-in votes.
The civil rights of those casting legitimate ballots is offended with Mail-in ballots which have no provenance.
But some have said: "Well if Trump is not elected that means Pence is not either and on Jan 21, the third in line -- the Speaker of the House -- becomes a kind of President Pro Tempore. We will be ruled by Pelosi who will manipulate an election thrown now into the House!"
To which I say, not quite.
On what basis is Pelosi the speaker in Jan 2021? Her term as Speaker ends and she has to be re-installed by a new Congress, but that is true only if all House races are decided. If all Mail-in ballots have not been counted, by what authority does she remain as Speaker?
This is Constitutional crises time.
Only executive intervention by way of delaying elections (Directive 51) is possible in advance of the election to try to rectify the situation. This could be Trump playing "chicken" with Pelosi to see who blinks (we know who does, don't we?)
In fact if Mail-in ballots are still outstanding, her election to anything is also in question.
Mail-in ballots will have to be discounted on an Equal Protection XIV Amendment Civil Rights basis. No provenance, therefore, no assurance that any were cast legitimately.
Legal theory: Illegitimate votes dilute legitimate votes -- voting rights distorted = Civil Rights issue. DOJ assures electoral integrity and settles Civil Rights cases. The ball is back in the Executive Branch's court either way.
Even if CA managed to count all its ballots and other States had not, the 2020 election could not be decided because electors can't be certified simply on the basis of how CA voted. Again, it is a XIV issue.
Mail-in balloting is a death match. It is a purposeful action by one party to try to take over the entire system of government by theft. But in this way and on this occasion the fraudulent attempt is there for all to see.
It is my belief it will not end well for those pushing to distort the election process.
Interesting times.
It’s about time the GOP thought outside the box. We will never win again if we don’t.
FReegards!
