"Because eleven Southern states had declared secession from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America, only twenty-five states participated in the election." — Presidential election of 1864.
This time around, instead of secession being argued to ignore electoral votes of insurrectionist states, we need to ignore the electoral votes of Democratic-controlled swing states that fraudulently switched votes from Trump to Biden.
I’m not speaking on their behalf, but don’t think that Trump-supporting patriots in the renegade states would mind their votes being ignored in this case.
Insights welcome.
“Consider that any electoral votes of the Civil War Confederate States were simply ignored in the 1864 election, minimum votes necessary to win probably adjusted.”
Congress rejected the electors of the states of Louisiana and Tennessee and I don’t believe the threshold was adjusted to account for that.