Posted on 12/19/2021 6:30:30 PM PST by SeekAndFind
It should have been obvious during the few moments of lucidity from Joe Biden’s weird ranting lately: the electoral college is in the Democrats’ crosshairs now that the GOP has taken election integrity more seriously and the Dem administration that was supposed to save the country from Trump has turned out to be such a massive failure. Democrat future presidential wins look as likely as Democrat midterms wins.
So how can we tell Democrats will again turn to the unpopular tactic of attacking the electoral college out of desperation? Because Biden himself told us recently.
“It's about who gets to count the vote”
Joe Biden is echoing Joseph Stalin now
— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) December 15, 2021
From the New York Post, and quoting that same speech:
President Biden vowed Tuesday night that Democrats would make gains in next year’s midterm elections, a result that would defy the political odds as the White House grapples with a series of crises.
“We have to keep making the case,” Biden said at a holiday party attended by 400 Democratic National Committee officials and donors in Washington. “And if we do, I believe we’re going to win.
“Let me say this again for the press: We’re going to win in 2022.”
Moments earlier, the president had told Republicans eyeing a return to the majority in the House and Senate next year: “Get ready, pal. You’re going in for a problem.”
Many have pointed out the gut-churning comparison to something Joseph Stalin, bloody Soviet dictator who oversaw the deaths of millions and cared not a whit for Democracy, said about votes and vote counters..
“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how,” Stalin reportedly told his former secretary Boris Bazhanov in 1923.
That’s a point well taken. But he’s also referring to who counts the votes as it relates to the electoral college, as these two academics note in a piece at The Hill.
Some even would have state legislatures select their Electoral College electors, thereby ignoring that state’s popular vote won by the Democratic presidential candidate.
Because Republicans control 30 state legislatures, these efforts obviously are meant to tilt — and likely decide — the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.
Under these circumstances, everyone who believes in the popular vote — the bedrock of any democracy — should read and heed the guarantee articulated in Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment. That almost-forgotten constitutional text specifically provides that if state legislatures interfere with the popular vote for the Electoral College electors, such states are to be punished by having the size of their congressional delegation reduced. When a state loses House seats, it thereby also loses Electoral College votes.
You got that? The move is punish the GOP if they “interfere” in how electors are chosen by reducing the size of their delegation in Congress and ensuring a smaller electoral college vote for Republicans.
Democrats have a unique tendency to reveal their plans before enacting them, and then writing entire polemics explaining why those plans were necessary after they’ve disrupted every norm they could (see: the 2020 election and that very strange Time Magazine article about fortifying the election).
But as Jim Inhofe, Republican senator from Oklahoma, and Trent England, executive director of Save Our States, write in National Review, the GOP would do well to pay attention to what the left is trying to do to the electoral college before it happens, and work now to flip the narrative of “interference” in the choosing of electors to where it belongs — back on Democrats.
The Constitution reserves nearly all the power over elections to the states. It requires state legislatures to determine how best to represent their state in the Electoral College. It bars federal officials from serving as presidential electors. The Electoral Counts Act of 1887 reiterates this constitutional design by limiting federal power to interfere in states’ electoral-vote counting — no matter how good the intentions or real the concerns of members of Congress.
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Our great American Founders knew what they were doing in constructing a system of government that delicately balances power between cities and rural communities, between coastal communities and inland regions. The Electoral College is a critical part of that system, a guarantee that while political candidates may treat states such as Oklahoma as flyover country, Oklahomans will have as clear and powerful a voice in electing presidents as San Franciscans and New Yorkers. The very future of our republic depends on its preservation.
If the GOP is serious about winning in 2024 — especially after they make the gains everyone thinks they will in the 2022 midterms — they need to get in front of the shenanigans the left has planned instead of playing catch-up as they have so often in the past. A country struggling to buy gas and groceries, and wondering when they can lose the masks for good, is depending on them.
Senile Joe told us in Oct 2020 that they had the most extensive vote fraud organization ever and the GOP ignored it.
BOTH parties wanted rid of Trump.
The only thing the GOP anticipates is it’s next check from the lobbyists on K street.
The GOP is a leftest threat. They are useless and 99% of them should be purged.
If the Electoral College is abolished, I suggest it be replaced with a system where every county or parish in the United States gets ONE VOTE. The candidate with the most votes wins the election.
It’s a great idea because a) It would be darned near impossible to steal thousands of county-by-county votes and b) many don’t realize that Republicans typically have a 4-to-1 edge in actual counties since most Democrats come from large cities.
And, even better, such a system is completely fair. it’s not hidden. It’s right out there in the open for all to see. This is, of course, why Democrats would never allow for it.
A threat to the electoral college?
What could be a bigger threat to the EC than fraudulent false electors being accepted without question by vice president Pence?
These days, college is overrated.
RE: These days, college is overrated
Are you on the right thread?
They get rid of Electoral College in 2024, what’s to stop states like Florida and Texas from seceding?
The US Army. They will obey the orders of the Fuhrer president. By then the patriots will have been purged completely from the ranks.
Better idea yet: Each person gets one vote.
Guy or lady with the most votes becomes prez.
What’s wrong with that?
Just enforce the Communist Control Act of 1954. It’s still on the books.
THE LEFT WILL ALSO CENSOR DETRIMENTAL INFO AS THEY DID FOR BIDUNG
REFERENCE Googles For ‘Can I Change My Vote’ Surged
After Suppressed Hunter Biden Sex Tapes Emerged
Inquisitir ^ | 10/25/2020 | Tyler McDonald
Posted on 10/26/2020, 9:53:22 AM by marcusmaximus
Google searches for “can I change my vote” spiked on Sunday in the wake of the release of sex tapes that purportedly belong to Hunter Biden, The Gateway Pundit reported.
As noted by the publication, Google Trends indexes searches on a scale of 1 to 100, with a value of 100 representing the term or phrase’s peak possible popularity, and 50 representing half this popularity. Each number is representative of search interest relative to the highest popularity on the chart for a selected time and region.
Per The Gateway Pundit, the states of Utah, Idaho, and Pennsylvania topped the pack for the highest number of searches for the phrase “can I change my vote.” Afterward came New Mexico, Michigan, Arizona, Missouri, Nevada, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
(Excerpt) Read more at inquisitr.com ...
Deciding a national election by raw vote total is what the Left actually wants because they can invent millions and millions of fake ballots from, say, Los Angeles or New York City to change the results in their favor. And can you imagine the mess you’d have if there were a national recount?
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