It seems so ... and perhaps TOO ... easy.
I don't trust politicians anymore.
So I've considered a couple of blind sides.
The one that has been successful in the past has been ... the democrats just walk out.
Everything in the above speaks to Congress being present as in a quorum.
But there is no definition as to such.
Does anyone have an opinion or insight into this ?
The Libs have been thinking about this for some time wonder why. Here is a quote from Daily Poster.
“Let’s imagine that these five (Biden states with Republican) state legislatures do appoint another slate of electors. And let’s imagine that the slates of electors cast their ballots on December 14th and they send their certified results to Mike Pence and Pence opens them on January 6th and begins to process them…
The Arizona slate gets opened up, and there’s one slate that purports to be for Joe Biden, and another slate that purports to be for Donald Trump. Now, this turns out to be really important. Arizona has a Republican governor. So imagine the Republican governor signs the slate for Donald Trump...
Under the rules for counting electoral votes, the vice president could say, I’ve got two slates here, I’m going to recognize the slate signed by the Republican governor. There would be an objection. And if there’s an objection that’s signed by both a senator and a member of the House of Representatives, then the two bodies would separate, the senators would walk back over into the Senate, and they would decide whether they’re going to uphold the objection or reject it.
Now we can imagine that the Democratic House will vote to uphold the objection. They’ll say that Biden’s slate should be counted. Then the question is whether the Republican Senate votes to reject the objection. So let’s start with the most partisan assumption — let’s assume all the Republicans hang together. That means that the houses have disagreed about which slate should be counted. And if the houses disagree about which slate should be counted, under the rules for counting the slate of electors, it’s the slate of electors signed by the governor that gets counted. So that means it would be the Republican slate that gets counted.
But here’s why that would be a very stupid move for the Republicans to make. Because of the five states that this game could be played in, three states have Democratic governors and only two states have Republican governors, Arizona, and Georgia. So that means if they counted the slates that the governors of count have assigned, Joe Biden would still have enough votes in the electoral college, because he would have Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, and that would put him over 270. So that’s not what they would do if they’re going to play this game.
Instead, what they would do if they’re going to play this game, is that the houses would separate, the Republican Senate would vote to affirm the Republican slate of electors, the Democratic house would vote to affirm the Democratic slate of electors. That means that both houses have not voted to reject the move by the vice president to count the Republican slates. And if they don’t reject the move by the vice president to count the Republican slate, the Republican slate gets counted. And so what that means is, if the houses disagree, Mike Pence’s ruling stands and Mike Pence’s ruling would be, on the assumption we’re making, would be for the Republican slate in all five of those cases. And he would therefore count Donald Trump and himself into the presidency.
If voters want to call their elected officials to ensure that the popular vote in their state is respected, which politicians should they be pressuring?
We are launching a petition on our website at XXXXXX.us. that calls on Republican senators to affirm that they are not going to vote against the vote of the people in any of these states.
What is the actual vote you are asking those senators to commit to casting?
So again, the scenario we’re imagining is Arizona comes up, and there’s a Republican slate signed by the governor and the Democratic slate that is in accord with the certification of the secretary of state in Arizona. And Mike Pence says, I believe the Constitution gives the Republican legislature the power to appoint their electors however they want, because I’ve read the words of the great constitutional scholar, Mark Levin, and that’s what he has said. Immediately there’s an objection filed to the ruling of the chair and each body that has to decide how it’s going to vote on the objection.
And what the objection is saying is no, you can’t recognize the Republican slate. You have to recognize the Democratic slate, the Democratic House will vote to say, we agree with the objection and the Republican Senate will have to vote to decide whether it’s going to agree with the objection.
So five Republican senators would have to vote with the Democrats in the Senate to say that they believe that the objection should be sustained…”
Important call your senator to support President Trump.
why is it we can jump thru hoops, early voting, drop boxes, extended counting, mail in’s, etc. in the name of ‘pandemic’.
But we can’t delay the electoral college process until after investigations are complete?
Just have Pence count every state for Trump/Pence and let the dems fight it in court. Four years later......