Posted on 01/05/2017 3:27:12 PM PST by drewh
Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., indicated Thursday that he is exploring all possible procedures at his disposal to delay certification of the Electoral College results during a joint session of Congress on Friday.
Perlmutter hasn't committed to putting up a roadblock to finalizing the results, but his office confirmed that he is "reviewing certain laws and the U.S. Constitution as it pertains to efforts to undermine our electoral process."
The rules allow lawmakers to protest the counting of Electoral College votes, but because the votes are counted during a joint session of Congress, a senator would also have to protest the results to halt their certification.
Perlmutter was reacting to intelligence community officials' statements during hearings on Capitol Hill Thursday about Russia's meddling in the November elections. Intelligence officials say Russia was behind the hacking into Democratic emails last year in an attempt to sway the election.
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Enter your email Signup "It is clear Russia intervened in an attempt to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election," Perlmutter stated. "This action by a foreign nation was unprecedented, violated our Constitution and undermined the founding pillars of American liberty and democracy."
"This is not about trying to stop Donald Trump from becoming president," he insisted.
"This is about the fact that our liberty, freedom and democracy were compromised by Russia's intrusion into America's election," he continued. "We cannot allow a foreign nation to ever influence our elections because it harms our liberty, freedom and independence. This is bigger than just one election, and for the sake of our democracy, we must remain vigilant."
A report in Politico said Reps. Bobby Scott, D-Va., and Jamie Raskin, D-Md., are also considering challenges to the vote.
Objections from the trio of Democrats—or any of their colleagues—are being encouraged by a variety of good government groups and liberal activists who circulated a legal brief Thursday detailing how to object and claiming that a sizeable chunk of the Electoral College was not legally allowed to participate in voting that took place in statehouses Dec. 19.
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Democrats lodged formal protests during certification of both the 2004 and 2000 Electoral College results.
If Congress threw out enough votes to put Trump below the 270-vote threshold, lawmakers would choose the president from three people who received the most Electoral College votes Dec. 19—Trump, Hillary Clinton and Colin Powell.
It is highly unlikely that the GOP-controlled Congress will deny Trump certification of any of his 304 Electoral College votes.
The threat of potential challenges may be inducement enough to keep Republican lawmakers who may have been inclined to skip the usually perfunctory session from leaving town early. A quorum of both chambers must be present to certify the results.
Oh, of course not! Perish the thought...
Moonbats are still in denial.
They still can’t accept the fact they lost, 58 days after the election.
The Dems forgot to have a new election for America’s Dumbest Senator after Barbara Boxer retired. She’s the one who made the pointless gesture last time.
The demodummie needs to put up or shut up. Prevent actual, undisputable evidence that Russia rigged the election. If I were him I would have addressed my attention to the media whores as it was quite obvious they did their best to beat Trump and put their candidate high in the polls, yet they still lost and cannot get over it.
In Colorado he presents himself as a moderate Democrat, but in truth he’s as much of an asshat as the rest of the bunch.
Perlmutter is a wanker.
Colorado is becoming a real embarrassment to conscious Americans.
“We cannot allow a foreign nation to ever influence our elections because it harms our liberty, freedom and independence. This is bigger than just one election, and for the sake of our democracy, we must remain vigilant.”
Kind of like not allowing our own Marxist, anti-Semitic president’s meddling in Israel’s election of Netanyahu?
Maybe Biden ought to tell Perlmutter to “grow up” instead of Trump......
“It is clear Russia intervened in an attempt to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election...”
If the evidence is “clear”, I like to see it.
Colorado is following California into the toilet.
This statement is literally true, but false in essence.
One Senator and one Representative don't "protest" the results, they "object to" the results, and the certification is halted for as long as it takes 270 voting members of the special joint session to overrule the objection and certify the results, under the circumstances obtaining tomorrow, that is, about five minutes.
I = I’d
sigh...
Perlmutter hasn’t thought this through. If Trump were replaced by whatever combination of treachery at this stage, that would be the end of the country and voting by other means would begin.
from here it looks like he’s ahead of the asshat pack
In grade school we were taught you can grow up to be anything, even President. Taught it to my kids too. Dopey me. Praying for DJT.
I hope everyone here is emailing and calling this Jackass.
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