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To: GOPJ

State laws vary by state. The only Supreme Court cases on the issue are Chiafalo v. Washington and Colorado Department of State v. Baca. The Washington case affirmed that faithless electors can be fined by the state for choosing to vote for someone else. The Colorado case affirmed the power of the state to preemptively replace a faithless elector.

In the 2020 election, no electors were replaced. There is no legal provision for states to come back - months after the fact - and decertify electors. And Georgia doesn’t even require electors to vote with the election results anyway. (https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2019/title-21/chapter-2/article-12/section-21-2-499/). Arizona’s state law only covers faithless electors who “knowingly refuses” to cast a ballot in accordance with the results certified by the secretary of state. (https://www.azleg.gov/viewdocument/?docName=https://www.azleg.gov/ars/16/00212.htm) So even if an Arizona elector believed there was fraud, if they had decided to cast their ballot for President Trump, they would have been immediately removed and replaced per the state law.

There is no legal pathway to reverse the results of the 2020 election. Focus on exposing the fraud that happened. Focus on making sure it never happens again. That is achievable.


96 posted on 05/21/2021 11:52:48 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

Once the fraud is exposed, you’ll see the pathway to removing a criminally “elected” President of the United States open up before you. The left is sitting back laughing at us as we stumble to bring to light what they know happened. Do you believe there is a lefty in the country that isn’t fully aware of the coup?


105 posted on 05/21/2021 12:16:40 PM PDT by HandyDandy
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

You rely so heavily on precedent that you state that the Nation cannot move without one. You seem to have forgotten the chicken & the egg.
How did we get precedents? Cases were brought, argued & decided and those decisions became precedent. There have always been cases decided without precedent and actions by Congress without precedent. Precedents are respected but are not binding. They are overturned when flawed.
There is no rule that says common sense needs to be ignored & criminals need to be allowed to profit from crimes because no one has been caught committing that crime before & we have no precedent.


179 posted on 05/23/2021 10:41:37 PM PDT by JayGalt (The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.)
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