What happens after the 2 hours?
I have heard each full chamber votes and I have heard just one vote per state in the house.. Which is it?
Thank you.
We’re talking about a vote to reject electors, which is a regular vote (i.e., to reject electors, both a majority of the Senate and a majority of the House must vote in favor of rejection). The chance of that happening is basically zero. The two hour debate rule applies in this area.
If no candidate has a majority of electoral votes after Congress meets, then the House chooses the president. That’s the vote that has the one vote per state.
You are conflating things.
Objections are asserted state by state. Nobody will object to the electors submitted by Utah, for example - 2 hours of debate, then the objection is voted on by the entire body. All that “objection” stuff will be completed on Jan 6.
If that process does not result in a winner, like if there are three candidates or no majority because some states are tossed wholesale, only in that circumstance does the “each state gets one vote” thing trigger.
See 12th amendment.
Both chambers vote, and must concur (which will obviously never happen) to overturn the certified electors for any given state.
Barring that, the certified electors for a state are the ones that are counted.
A state COULD conceivably send 2 slates of certified electors, but the chances of that happening for even 1 state are pretty much nil, and there’s zero chance of that happening for all contested states.
So, net net - the EC count as it stands now is almost certain to be the EC count in the end.
Again, just being realistic..