Posted on 12/15/2016 7:11:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The latest twist in Democrats’ campaign to undermine the electoral college has been bubbling up for about a week now. Yesterday, Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia posted a statement on his Facebook page saying the electoral college vote, scheduled to take place Monday, should be delayed:
Recent, credible intelligence reports suggest a concerted effort by a foreign power to interfere in the outcome of our presidential election.
I believe that Electors should be given all information relevant to this interference before they make their decisions and before they cast their votes.
Congress must take whatever action is necessary to protect the integrity of our democracy. I call on the leaders of Congress to delay the date of the vote for the Electoral College until an intelligence briefing has been given to each Elector.
Beyer told the Washington Post later in the day, “If we don’t act early, and soon, we run the risk of having an illegitimate president.” That certainly makes it sound as if the goal here is more than getting information.
Meanwhile, a petition has been circulating on Change.org for the last week asking for such a delay in the vote. It has nearly 175,000 signatures at this point. Also yesterday, there was a message posted on Change.org claiming that Nancy Pelosi was asking for help to push this delay on President Obama. There has been no statement verifying this from Pelosi, meaning it may be “fake news.” Even so, more than 30,000 people have signed it in just 24 hours.
As you can tell from Rep. Beyer’s statement, all of this fresh activity surrounding a call to delay the vote is piggybacking on an effort by a group of Democratic electors, led by Nancy Pelosi’s daughter Christine Pelosi, to demand an intelligence briefing before the vote is taken. Yesterday I noted the number of signatories to that letter had climbed to forty. Today it reached 68, with all but one of them Democrats.
So first we had the call for a intelligence briefing, which as Fox News’ Chris Wallace notes below, would be a stretch given that most of the electors do not have a security clearance. Now, on top of that request you have a call to delay the vote until the first demand is satisfied.
It really is looking more and more like Democrats are groping their way toward a concerted effort to change the results of this election. How many weeks ago was it when failing to accept the results of an election was frowned upon as a threat to democracy? Seems like an age ago.
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Neither Nancy Pelosi nor President 0bama has the authority to delay the vote. It's a matter of Federal law: Title III, Section 7 of the US Code:
§ 7. The electors of President and Vice President of each State shall meet and give their votes on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December next following their appointment at such place in each State as the legislature of such State shall direct.
Good luck getting a bill passed through the House and the Senate in the next two business days.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Will the progtards ever tire of giving us more WINNING?
Excellent!
.Hussein could just issue an EO to change the Calendar so that Monday was just skipped over.
I have never seen anything more pitiful in my life than these Democrats with all their toys taken away from them.
Almost wanna take ‘em to the vet and have them euthanized just to end their suffering. Give ‘em a big, fat shot of the pink stuff, Doc, they no longer have a purpose.
What a bunch of pointless losers.
When does this meet the definition of sedition?
The certificates that name electors are public documents. Many states allow public viewing of the electors’ meeting.
They are going to try a coup.
Doing so signs their death warrants, IMO, but they really have no choice. I am praying that Mattis, Flynn, and Kelly are on top of the situation, and that Trump has a place to go until the situation is brought under control.
Right. We are to believe that the Russians “hacked” the election by shining a light on the dirty underhanded dealings of the Democrats.
I guess any kind of Democrat corruption is okay, as long as the people are kept in the dark about it so that Democrats can stay in power.
It’s not up to electors to change the votes of the people in their states. Voters knew damned well what they were doing in voting for either Hillary! or Donald. The election went on roughly forever. The nerve of these people is astonishing. Unfortunately this jackass Beyer is my Congressthing.
Oh get over it, you lost, it was won by Trump, now stop acting like spoiled brats .
CIA won’t even officially make a statement saying it is Russia. The whole thing has been debunked which was started by the NY Times with a unnamed source.
“Congress must take whatever action is necessary to protect the integrity of our democracy. I call on the leaders of Congress to delay the date of the vote for the Electoral College until an intelligence briefing has been given to each Elector. “
Hell, the CIA won’t even tell the Congressmen that hold security clearances and oversight what they’ve found - like hell they’ll tell Electors anything.
These “recent credible intelligence reports” all seem to track back to one leftist named Mike. Friggin’ lefties need to all have a 3-day bleach chugging contest.
“First Monday after the second Wednesday. No one has the authority to change that.”
Sorry pal, but you are TOTALLY WRONG. All that has to happen is for a Constitutional Amendment to be passed.
But they better hurry, they only have a bit under 4 days to get it through Congress and then ratified by 38 states.
The Russians didn’t hack the voting machines.
The only real story, if it was Russians, is “Russians hacked DNC server”. Just because Trump was untouched does not make the election unfair. + if exposing the truth hurts you, maybe you need to examine what you are doing.
Brilliant response. We need to remember this and make them pay if they ever win again
I’m not sure if anyone else recognized the picture. It’s of some of the Soviet hard-liners who attempted the overthrow of Gorbachev back in 1991.
An actual coup d’état.
Now, what would WE do if they tried that?
They would be arrested within an hour, and a number of them would be killed on the spot.
I think.
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