This is definitely the longest article I have ever posted. But it is the blue print to how Vice-President Pence can save the Republic from a stolen election.
The article was an enjoyable history lesson for me. I'm glad it turned out the way it did, I'm not sure I like the sound of "President Pinckney".
But that's not why I replied.
Are you saying that Pence, as President of the Senate, can refuse to accept the electoral votes of individual states, based on his perception of their voters' intent?
That's an explosive game-changer, right there...
Great post. I actually printed it at 10 pages at 70% for reading, it’s long and detailed.
On scanning it, I sure agree with it as a possible blueprint, but also that advocating such a course will cause yet more whining about the US Supreme Court actions in the 2000 election, in part because of this article, which the liberal Atlantic itself whiningly worked into the article as a complaint.
Democrats will claim “it’s not fair” or something worse, as though We the People now are required to do the wrong thing and to accept criminal and traitorous fraud because they “feel” wronged by something 20 years ago. (Something that was actually done correctly anyway.)
Thank you!
Thoughts? Could this all fall to VP Pence to decide?
Well, this was exactly what happened in 1876 when 3 states sent two sets of Electors to Congress. Because Article II and Amendment XII did not set forth what to do, there was a huge fight over it which was eventually resolved with an extra-constitutional compromise, putting a Republican in the White House (Hayes) while removing Federal troops from the former Confederate states, restoring them to full sovereignty.
Unfortunately for the Pence scenario, the Electoral Vote Counting Act, passed to prevent a recurrence, specifies how two competing slates are to be dealt with.
Yes, Pence can rule from the chair to accept Trump Electors and refuse Biden Electors - but it only takes one Senator and one Representative to appeal his ruling to the floor, where each Member or Senator present gets one vote, and in January 2021 (best case scenario) there will be 270 Democrats and 265 Republicans present.
There is no doubt that, if Pence were to do this, the floor would overrule the chair and count the Biden Electors.