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To: meadsjn

What happens when a bunch of states have not certified their votes? Electors can’t be chuson then. And the part about states, how does that work of states have not ceritified their votes. These various solutions don’t really seem to fit the problem. But I am a high school dropout, what do I know.


820 posted on 11/17/2020 10:04:29 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. )
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To: little jeremiah
And the part about states, how does that work of states have not ceritified their votes.

Each Representative is elected by the people of a District. I believe the precincts in each district have to certify their votes, or perhaps the counties. Either way, it is likely that at least some House Districts in each state can be certified. It is also possible that the SCOTUS could order new elections in the States and Districts.

In Clancy's "Debt of Honor", the House, Senate, and Supreme Court, most of the cabinet secretaries, and upper military leadership, were all wiped out in a jet liner suicide attack (similar to 9-11). Jack Ryan, as the VP nominee, became the instant POTUS. He had the People vote to replace their Representatives, and the Governors appoint their Senators. He was in uncharted territory in the book.

We are in uncharted territory here, also. We are in the midst of a hostile coup by enemies foreign and domestic.

It would be great to have this resolved peacefully (relatively speaking), and have our Constitutional republic saved, and restored.

If it falls to the people to rectify, it will be ugly for a while, and my predictions cannot be written here; not yet.

Here's a hint: Anyone who has publicly yapped about "saving our democracy" is an enemy of all humans, and of all of human civilization, in my not so humble opinion. We are a constitutional republic, and "their democracy" happens to be the most hideous and atrocious collection of bad ideas from the worst of the worst of bad political movements.

From the 12th Amendment:

--The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. (See Note 14)

A quorum of one or more members from 2/3 of the states (35 or more states so represented during the choice) needed to take a vote, and ...

... a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. (26, or more, votes of the 50 states so represented, necessary to choose a President).

934 posted on 11/18/2020 6:04:34 AM PST by meadsjn (, )
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