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Marco Rubio Looks to Extend Period for Casting Electoral College Votes
Florida Daily ^ | August 9th 2020 | Kevin Derby

Posted on 08/10/2020 2:17:03 PM PDT by Jacquerie

Looking ahead to the general election, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is calling for extending the period for states to choose presidential electors.

Rubio is championing a bill “to extend the federal safe harbor period for states to determine electors from December 8, 2020 to January 1, 2021 for this year’s presidential election” insisting it “would give states the flexibility needed in a pandemic to help ensure each and every legal vote cast is counted.” Rubio’s proposal would also have electoral college members cast their votes on January 2, 2021 instead of December 14.

Pointing to hostile powers–namely China and Russia–Rubio warned about foreign interference in the upcoming election.

“We cannot escape the pandemic-induced reality of increased mail-in voting, and the logistical challenges associated with it will be difficult for some states to resolve in the next couple of months,” Rubio insisted. “We should give states the flexibility to provide local election officials additional time to count each and every vote by moving the federal safe harbor deadline for states from December 8 to January 1.

“But it gets worse,” he continued. “Local election officials in critical swing states like Pennsylvania, which saw a 17-fold increase in mail-in ballots for its June primary, are warning that, absent changes, ‘there is no way anybody can responsibly call the presidential race in November.’

Beijing and other hostile foreign actors would throw their full weight behind a misinformation campaign, complete with falsified evidence, asserting that the results are rife with fraud and the election is in the process of being ‘stolen.’ They would use unassuming, but fake social media accounts to spread and magnify allegations that some mail-in ballots are being removed from the post office and destroyed, while others are falsified.

(Excerpt) Read more at floridadaily.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; Russia; US: Florida; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: absoluterino; china; electoralcollege; florida; kevinderby; marcorubio; nevertrump; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; pandemic; pennsylvania; russia; teamromney; teamsoros
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Won't be voting for this deep stater in 2022. He knows that what he proposes will throw all federal elections to the rats.
1 posted on 08/10/2020 2:17:03 PM PDT by Jacquerie
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To: Jacquerie

Sounds like a trouble maker


2 posted on 08/10/2020 2:19:02 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: Jacquerie
We already have too long of period between election day and inauguration day for lame duck hijinks. We should be shortening the period to get the electoral votes in, not lengthening them. In many European countries, if the parliament switches parties the prime minister is clearing out his desk the day after the election instead of taking two months like we still do.
3 posted on 08/10/2020 2:20:47 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after az><n election.)
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To: Jacquerie

Little Marco’s butt is still hurting from the pummelling in 2015/16.


4 posted on 08/10/2020 2:21:31 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Jacquerie

no

assh0le rubio


5 posted on 08/10/2020 2:21:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Jacquerie

V_T_ H_RV_ST_NG

I’d like to buy a vowel please


6 posted on 08/10/2020 2:22:20 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: MNDude

Little Marco sounds like a Democrat with this proposal.


7 posted on 08/10/2020 2:22:47 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Jacquerie

Rubio has voted for a permanent majority for Democrats with amnesty for illegal aliens.
Flimsey Grahamnesty has done it THREE times.
Bush League Republicans are working for a one party state and it is NOT Republican.


8 posted on 08/10/2020 2:23:26 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Jacquerie
NO RUBIO! NO!

WRONG!

WRONG YOU ASS HOLE, WRONG!

9 posted on 08/10/2020 2:24:54 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: Jacquerie

Marco Rubio continues to carry the water for the anti-Trumpers in the Republican Party...who in turn carry the Demorat water.


10 posted on 08/10/2020 2:25:05 PM PDT by caww (Fret Not, The Liberal Left don't have the truth.... we do!)
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To: MNDude
Sounds like a trouble maker

100%!

11 posted on 08/10/2020 2:25:08 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: KarlInOhio

With only three weeks for Trump to replace loser appointees, the Deep State won’t have enough time to set up another Logan Act “violation.”


12 posted on 08/10/2020 2:27:38 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: KC_Lion

Who instructed Rubio to do this?

He doesn’t act on his own.


13 posted on 08/10/2020 2:28:40 PM PDT by rintintin (qu)
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To: Jacquerie

Rubio is such a Retard.

No way would I ever vote for him for anything.


14 posted on 08/10/2020 2:29:40 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Jacquerie

I have a better idea:

Why does each state just revert back to having the electors chosen on November 3 by the state legislators rather than the state voters. This way no one have to risk getting Covid when they go to a mailbox or to a voting center.

This would also be a good civics lesson for Americans to understand state sovereignty and how our Constitution actually works.


15 posted on 08/10/2020 2:30:42 PM PDT by zencycler
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To: zencycler

Agree.

The problem is the Siren’s song of democracy. Few understand that the myriad problems caused by the democratic element (17th Amendment and One-Man-One-Vote in the states) cannot be cured by more democracy.


16 posted on 08/10/2020 2:36:13 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

Let’s not forget Rush called Li’il Marco a full-throated conservative in 2016. Gag me with a spoon...


17 posted on 08/10/2020 2:39:07 PM PDT by georgiegirl (Count me Deplorable)
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To: Jacquerie

No. Clearly stated in the Constitution about election process and rules. You want to bend the rules, Little Marco?

Next.


18 posted on 08/10/2020 2:43:58 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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bump


19 posted on 08/10/2020 2:45:01 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Jacquerie

This election is for all the marbles.


20 posted on 08/10/2020 2:45:26 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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