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To: MtnClimber
no one can be declared elected * * *, unless he * * * receives a majority or a plurality of the legal votes cast in the election.

Need to be very careful with this as the left is going to argue that Biden won the popular vote and thus should win the election. This could be a slippery slope to removing the Electoral College.

3 posted on 12/11/2020 4:42:31 AM PST by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: rarestia

Biden only won the popular ILLEGAL VOTES. Same as Hillary.


6 posted on 12/11/2020 4:45:13 AM PST by Saveourcountry
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To: rarestia

POTUS is elected by the states, not by citizens’ popular vote.

Electoral college is the first method. We are now looking at the second method.


8 posted on 12/11/2020 4:47:40 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: rarestia
>> Need to be very careful with this as the left is going to argue that Biden won the popular vote

No. States elect presidents, not individual citizens -- the only "legal votes" defined in the Constitution are the electoral votes of each state.

12 posted on 12/11/2020 4:54:39 AM PST by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: rarestia

“ legal votes”

That is the issue


14 posted on 12/11/2020 5:01:42 AM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change.)
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To: rarestia
Then he would have to prove that he:

received a majority or a plurality of the legal votes cast in the election.

16 posted on 12/11/2020 5:08:09 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: rarestia
legal votes cast
18 posted on 12/11/2020 5:12:53 AM PST by SisterK (its a spiritual war )
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To: rarestia

plurality of the legal votes cast


25 posted on 12/11/2020 5:39:31 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (If there be WAR in the offing, let it begin HERE. With ME.)
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