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How to Resolve a Contested Election, Part 3: When Elections Fail
Law Fare Blog ^ | 10-23-20 | Scott Anderson

Posted on 11/30/2020 6:08:20 PM PST by TrumpRedJoe

The first two posts in this series covered the presidential selection process more or less as it’s intended to work.......

But what happens if no candidate secures the support of a majority of electors? Or if this process breaks down, as a result of either good-faith disagreement among the participants or deliberate obstruction by key officials? This post takes up these last two important questions. The answer to the first is a special constitutional process called a Contingent Election. And the answer to the latter is a law called the Presidential Succession Act. Neither, however, is straightforward.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: congress; contestedelection
We can go way down the rabbit hole. We may have to.
1 posted on 11/30/2020 6:08:20 PM PST by TrumpRedJoe
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2 posted on 11/30/2020 6:11:08 PM PST by TigersEye (2020 - The year of massive frauds. Impeachment - masks - lockdowns - Biden - elections...)
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To: TrumpRedJoe

Has never happened in American history. In 1876, the closest we’ve come to this, Congress through a Joint Session handled the contested states and awarded all to the R.


3 posted on 11/30/2020 6:32:33 PM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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PRESIDENT TRUMP IS 100% RIGHT ABOUT THE FBI AND DOJ

Why aren’t the FBI and DOJ with their multi-billion dollar budgets all over the investigation of possible and likely voter fraud leading to a stolen election?

Why is it left to the Trump political campaign and a couple of private lawyers to finance their own investigation of a nationwide issue of possible political corruption and criminal conduct at high levels?

The FBI has been in the headline news over the last few years for busting minor alleged political criminals but are noticeably absent in what is potentially the biggest political scandal of all time.

Meanwhile, the entire country’s faith in the election system has been destroyed.

There is no way the majority of voters will ever believe that the current election numbers posted are honest and unbiased.

Nor would a majority ever believe that any change in the vote if president Trump’s challenges prevail are honest and unbiased

The FBI and DOJ should be investigating the election to find the truth whatever it may be.

Only a thorough and unbiased investigation will have enough credibility to convince most voters that the results of this election are honest and restore some faith in the entire election process.


4 posted on 11/30/2020 6:38:14 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler ((8th Post From The Bottom)<P>)
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It is a tragedy there have not been any politicians shot


5 posted on 11/30/2020 6:41:46 PM PST by Bayard
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Yet.


6 posted on 11/30/2020 6:44:46 PM PST by null and void (If a country fixed a national election overnight like America just did, we would probably invade it.)
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To: Bayard

agreed


7 posted on 11/30/2020 8:28:42 PM PST by Irenic
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

The FBI is too busy busting people for downloading music and stuff, that’s why.

WAY more important.


8 posted on 11/30/2020 8:42:07 PM PST by Salamander (Call them by their true name: Pedocrats.)
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To: TrumpRedJoe

Contested election law...bump for later....


9 posted on 11/30/2020 9:58:02 PM PST by indthkr
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"Why is it left to the Trump political campaign and a couple of private lawyers to finance their own investigation of a nationwide issue of possible political corruption and criminal conduct at high levels?"

The "high level" investigative agencies are also corrupt?

🤔

10 posted on 11/30/2020 10:11:03 PM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave to a Socialist new America.)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

All personnel in FBI, JUSTICE, NSA, CIA, DEPT OF JUSTICE need to be tired to start over again. Let them work for the oligarch billionaire techs.


11 posted on 12/01/2020 12:17:16 AM PST by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism!)
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To: LS

I would think that undeniable proof, confessions, direct evidence of fraud, would have to emerge to upend things before the EVs are counted in the COTUS. I know I’m already convinced.


12 posted on 12/01/2020 7:08:36 AM PST by TrumpRedJoe (We are the Resistance,...we have ALWAYS been the Resistance! Onward Christian Soldiers!)
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To: LS

I sure as HELL hope Durham drops a bomb very soon!!!


13 posted on 12/01/2020 7:21:50 AM PST by TrumpRedJoe (We are the Resistance,...we have ALWAYS been the Resistance! Onward Christian Soldiers!)
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I am totally convinced, but you and I are not the “audience” here. Always keep in mind who the audience is. Courts, legislators, but these two have very different fucntions and must be appealed to very differently.


14 posted on 12/01/2020 8:15:32 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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Agreed


15 posted on 12/01/2020 8:43:19 AM PST by TrumpRedJoe (We are the Resistance,...we have ALWAYS been the Resistance! Onward Christian Soldiers!)
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