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To: shadowlands1960
I know of no Constitutional provision to nullify the result of the EC vote.

If the electoral college vote does not reach the necessary 270 votes, then Congress gets to decide (one state, one vote).

There could be a scenario where Congress refused to accept some electors even though there was only one slate presented to them by the state, but I would agree there is no precedent for that. However, I believe such a refusal is not prohibited by the language of the Twelfth Amendment.
90 posted on 11/21/2020 8:29:56 PM PST by cgbg ( Remember 1876--we _can_ do this!--Biden--Office of the Prisoner-Elect)
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To: cgbg

I’m speaking of nullifying an EC vote that has successfully elected a President... not the circumstance of when the EC fails to do so... when that happens, yes, it is thrown into Congress... that has happened 3 times in our history... the first scenario has never happened.


95 posted on 11/21/2020 8:41:39 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” CSL)
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