Posted on 10/21/2024 1:10:12 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
Rattling through my brain right now is: "what happens in an EV tie?" I think I know but am not certain. Does the House vote on the President and the Senate vote on the VP? IIRC that's the way it works. But what I'm wondering is how,exactly,does it work? Is it the incoming House and Senate or the outgoing ones? Is it a simple majority of House and Senate members?
I'm hoping that there might be a Constitutional scholar out there who's be willing to straighten me out.
If it’s this close, under these conditions. Man. At the risk of sounding pessimistic... that probably ain’t good.
‘Cause that’s what we’ve been going by.
I’m pretty sure that is absolutely not correct. The House can only select a candidate who finished 1st, 2nd or 3rd in the electoral vote. This language in the Constitution tells us that the founders of this country really designed the government with the expectation that we would NOT end up with just two major political parties.
If the Left is already upset about the Electoral College now, this would send them over the cliff- the Wyoming Congressional Representative having the same vote as the entire California delegation. It's a little too close for my liking, but the insanity it cause would be fun to watch.
Pistols at 20 paces.
Good questions.
Some have ventured to say Trump will win the election but Harris will be president. How can that happen. It lready has happened:
“The now officially-certified votes from the 2016 presidential race show that Hillary Clinton surpassed Donald Trump in the national popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes.
So Trump could win the popular vote but lose to Harris via the Democrats doing what they did in the 2020 election. Let Joe hide in the basement and steal enough swing state Electoral College votes to put Joe in the White House.
The House picks the President from the top 3 finishers, each state voting as one, and the Senate picks the VP from the top 2 finishers,, each Senator having one vote.
Should they be unable to resolve it by Inauguration Day, the VP becomes Acting President until a selection is made.
One state, one vote. So the idea is to control at least 26 state delegations.
Very similar, anyway.
The details are fuzzy, but some time recently there was a crackpot theory that the VP had the power to refuse to certify. Now clarified by statute, there is no such discretion
For example, had there been no Electoral College majority in 1968, the House could have voted for either Nixon, Humphrey, or Wallace, but Wallace’s running mate couldn’t have been elected VP by the Senate.
Last numbers I saw projected the Rats to win the House, and GOP to win Senate and White House. If it is just one vote per delegation, it depends on where they pick up seats I guess...
Or Vance could.
What we had been asking for is for audits or court cases on the merits for WEEKS before J6.
When that didn’t happen, we asked Pence to force them to do it before certifying.
I would LOVE for Kamala to require forensic audits of close states. That would be wonderful.
“ Or Vance could.”
Yes. But I didn’t consider that a horror story.
Enough. Don’t worry about that rare event until it happens.
One of the Republican electors will get very wealthy for flipping his vote (and will immediately move to some distant country).
Pence had no authority to tell any state election board to audit anything. Too many Freepers have just been making things up as they go along.
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