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To: TigerClaws
I believe VP Pence will then decide which electors to choose to count.

No, the House and the Senate meet separately to debate and vote on which slate of Electors to count.

3 U.S. Code ยง 15 - Counting electoral votes in Congress

... and in such case of more than one return or paper purporting to be a return from a State, ... then those votes, and those only, shall be counted which the two Houses shall concurrently decide were cast by lawful electors appointed in accordance with the laws of the State, unless the two Houses, acting separately, shall concurrently decide such votes not to be the lawful votes of the legally appointed electors of such State. But if the two Houses shall disagree in respect of the counting of such votes, then, and in that case, the votes of the electors whose appointment shall have been certified by the executive of the State, under the seal thereof, shall be counted.

The House and the Senate vote separately on which slate of Electors to accept. If they do not agree, then the slate of Electors certified by the Governor of the State shall be counted.

14 posted on 12/14/2020 7:59:05 AM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo
"appointed in accordance with the laws of the State"

The question will be whether those electors were lawfully appointed and whether anyone wants to see it. I am not aware that in any swing state the legislature has passed laws that allow machines and software using fractional counting to reallocate votes from the Republican and to the Democrate candidate or allows the dead to vote or allows exclusion of observers from counting centers or.

(Vote shaving---a RICO flavored gooey centered software "Easter Egg"!)

Hollywood explains How the Democrats handle accusations of election fraud.

Never give up on the con, never.

17 posted on 12/14/2020 8:27:22 AM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Yo-Yo

So both houses have to vote to reject a state’s duly certified slate of electors in order for a state’s duly certified slate of electors to be duly and finally rejected on 1/6/2021, but only one house has to vote to reject a non-certified slate of electors from a given state for such non-certifield slate of electors to be duly and finally rejected on 1/6/2021. So a duly certified slate of electors will end up being accepted if, in the end, only one house accepts it on 1/6/2021. Is this right?


20 posted on 12/14/2020 8:38:54 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Yo-Yo

So who gets the last word in a given state, the executive branch (governor) or legislative branch (state legislature). Or does it depend on what the circumstances were when the slate of electors was certified by the executive, meaning, if the slate was certified properly based on the final tally in accordance with the laws of the state, despite the fact that that final tally was clearly arrived at fraudulently and illegally in violation of the laws of the state, but the state legislature waited too long or comoletely failed to deprive the executive of the power to certify the POTUS candidate who benefitted from the fraud and crime before he went ahead and exercised that power, then Nancy Pelisi’s House of Representatives majority will be empowered to sanctify that unholy slate of electors and add it to Biden’s EC vote total?


23 posted on 12/14/2020 8:56:26 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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