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To: TLI
Here is the catch:
"...no electoral vote or votes from any State which shall have been regularly given by electors whose appointment has been lawfully certified to according to section 6 of this title from which but one return has been received shall be rejected"

Obama's qualification is not at issue at the counting. The Congress does not have the Constitutional authority to question it, as they have with respect to their own members, only the qualifications of the Electors' votes.

Nonetheless it is important that an objection be made for challenges after Obama is installed.
Representative Linder is doing a great service.

124 posted on 12/17/2008 5:12:33 PM PST by mrsmith
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To: mrsmith

“Obama’s qualification is not at issue at the counting...only the qualifications of the Electors’ votes.”

On the face of it, your interpretation appears consistent with the language of 3USC15.
Clearly, however, an elector appointed by Mickey Mouse can not be said to have been appointed in accordance with the laws of the State, given MM is patently unqualified to serve as President.
Further, an electoral vote for MM cannot be said to have been “regularly given”.

We are told O handpicked his electors. If he was born in Kenya, he knows he is unqualified. (Even if Frank Davis is on the BC, which would have been ludicrous in 1961.) Therefore, his electors would not have been legally appointed and, whether or not they had knowledge O was unqualified, their votes are subject to objection.

If one argues state officials certified the vote and there can be no issue, the response is the state acted in reliance on O’s fraudulent certification that he was qualified for the office. He was after all, as a US Senator, presumed to be a man of honor and integrity.


134 posted on 12/17/2008 6:31:11 PM PST by frog in a pot (Is there a definition of "domestic enemies" as used in federal oaths, or is that just lip service?)
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To: mrsmith
Here is the catch: "...no electoral vote or votes from any State which shall have been regularly given by electors whose appointment has been lawfully certified to according to section 6 of this title from which but one return has been received shall be rejected"

Obama's qualification is not at issue at the counting. The Congress does not have the Constitutional authority to question it, as they have with respect to their own members, only the qualifications of the Electors' votes.

You (conveniently?) left off the next part:

, but the two Houses concurrently may reject the vote or votes when they agree that such vote or votes have not been so regularly given by electors whose appointment has been so certified

147 posted on 12/17/2008 9:02:56 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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