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To: Nero Germanicus
"A president-elect can “fail to qualify” under the 20th Amendment by not having 270 or more electoral votes certified at the Joint Session of Congress that is held to count and certify the votes of the electors."

Stop your baloney. We've discussed this several times and you only try to obfuscate the issue. There is no such thing as a "President Elect" until Congress has accepted the results of the Electoral College votes as final and approved. Only after this has been done can anyone know exactly "who" is the President Elect. This means that the qualification required by the Twentieth Amendment, Section Three has NOTHING to do with election results and everything to do with other "qualifications", of which, the only remaining are the eligibility requirements.

As to the Obama defense position regarding this, you seem to know everything about all of the other trials that point to the innocence of your boss, you damn well know what I'm referring to here.

53 posted on 08/22/2013 5:39:19 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: Uncle Sham

The easiest way to disqualify an unqualified president-elect under the 20th Amendment is for Congress to refuse to certify the electoral votes in enough states to push the unqualified president-elect below the 270 electoral vote threshold needed for election to office. It only takes two members of Congress to object to certification of the electoral vote in any state, one Senator and one Representative.

President-elect of the United States
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“President-elect of the United States is the title used for an incoming President of the United States in the period between the general election on Election Day in November and noon eastern standard time on Inauguration Day, January 20, during which he is not in office yet. The title is used for the apparent winner and is finalized when votes of the Electoral College, cast in December, are counted by a joint session of Congress in early January. If a sitting President has won re-election, he is not referred to as a “President-elect” because he is already in office and is not waiting to become president. If a new President is scheduled to enter, then the current-standing one is said to hold the office on a lame-duck basis.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President-elect
and:
http://presidentelect.us/index.html. (Check out the FAQ, if you’re interested)

The bottom line is the the 20th Amendment refers to ONLY the President-Elect failing to qualify and we haven’t had a President-elect since 2008-2009.
A reelected incumbent is not a president-elect.


54 posted on 08/22/2013 9:18:36 AM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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