Posted on 12/30/2020 5:06:48 PM PST by Beave Meister
Pence can just refuse to accept the electors in the seven contested states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin who have sent dueling slates of electors to D.C. Since they violated Article II, Section 1 of the US Constitution by not following their own state constitutions in conducting their elections, the electors' votes submitted should not be considered because they are illegal.
He doesn't have to even accept and count the alternative slate of electors for Trump sent in by the state legislatures. He only has to count the electors from the remaining states.
If the votes of all seven contested states are registered as zero, President Trump would have 232 votes, and Joe Biden would have 222. The 12th Amendment says, "The votes shall then be counted.... The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President."
In plain language, Donald Trump will be re-elected, since he has a majority of the actual electoral votes that are legal. There will be no need to involve the House of Representatives to resolve a contingent election.
He might be the last line of defense, but he has nothing to do with the offensive options that follow.
“an attempt to argue that the vice president has sole authority to determine which presidential electors Congress will count when it certifies the results of the election”
Ludicrous on it’s face.
Should Walter Mondale have had the power to ensure 4 more years for Jimmy Carter in 1980...at Reagan’s expense?
Of course not.
If Pence can pick and choose slates of electors, can't any VP do the same, from now on? It will be SOP for the Dems to nominate electors in any state they lose, and for a Dem VP to recognize them.
I long for a solution to this crisis (that the Dems created by CHEATING), but this is a bad way to go. I think the swing states need to recognize there was fraud, the totals are not correct, and rescind certification.
The alternative is CWII.
JMO
If Pence can pick and choose slates of electors, can't any VP do the same, from now on? It will be SOP for the Dems to nominate electors in any state they lose, and for a Dem VP to recognize them.
I long for a solution to this crisis (that the Dems created by CHEATING), but this is a bad way to go. I think the swing states need to recognize there was fraud, the totals are not correct, and rescind certification.
The alternative is CWII.
JMO
And just how is this supposed war going to start, and who will the armies be?
No, they haven't. Not a single one of them.
I’ve been saying all along that he’s a squish RINO.
He is a good man, but incredibly naive about the evil that confronts him.
I knew it. I knew this guy could not be trusted to do the right thing. He’s a weakling.
I would not vote for him.
Ta da
Prove it.
How can the election results be up to pence if pence needs to ask a court to overturn it. Screw the court, do it anyway.
If he sits this one out, I’m sitting that one out.
Louis Gohmert must be a FReeper. He just told OANN that they had better have a lot of popcorn on January 6th, because it’s on.
If that is even true, and not a deep head fake state ruse. As in, BS. Yet another Lincoln Project effort to separate supporters into “camps”.
Inasmuch as the VP’s travel schedule is a matter of national security (kept separate from the President’s)
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