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To: 9YearLurker

Whatever the commission decides, it’s still up to Pence to accept or reject the electors.


59 posted on 01/03/2021 9:22:09 AM PST by philippa
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To: philippa

Pence has absolutely zero discretion in whether to accept or reject the electors. The VP’s role is very clearly and unambigously described in US Election Code as described here:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/15

The only path to rejecting electors is for a State to “de-certify” (unlikely to happen) or the House AND Senate to vote to do so after filing of an objection by at least one Senator and one Congressman. It does look like we’ll have those objections, so there will be votes by the House and Senate on each objection - but since the House will never agree to toss the EC votes for a given state, that’s nothing but theater and perhaps getting some attention to how fraudulent this “election” was.

Any claim to the contrary (eg: Pence has some unilateral power to reject votes) is from a blog looking to drive clicks by posting either uninformed or intentional nonsense.


113 posted on 01/03/2021 1:24:26 PM PST by jstolzen
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