Biden, McConnell, and Pelosi should embrace Cruz’s call for an election commission: If they really want national unity as they claim, they better put people's minds at ease

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[SeekAndFind]

It makes sense now. For the last three weeks, I’ve waited for a call to action by someone, anyone on Capitol Hill that would directly address voter fraud concerns. Now, someone has finally stepped up to try to make it happen, and I see in it a deeper logic than I could have hoped for before.

Senator Ted Cruz is leading a group of ten (and hopefully growing) Senators who are doing more than just objecting to certain slates of electors during the joint session of Congress on January 6th. They’re calling for an emergency 10-day audit by a commission assigned by Congress. This is the first common sense action we’ve seen officially proposed by a Senator or Representative because it offers a solution that, in a sane and fair world, would bring a measure of trust back to the system.

The timing is impeccable. One might say it’s the best-case-scenario. By calling for this commission just days before the joint session, it is proposing a de facto delay in finalizing the results from a constitutional perspective. This is important; had a commission been formed weeks ago, much of the evidence that is still surfacing today would have been missed.

Cruz is invoking a famous and logical precedent in the 1877 Electoral Commission. With far less evidence and fewer disputed states, Congress still found the wisdom to assign five Senators, five Representatives, and five Supreme Court Justices to examine the results of contested states to determine if sufficient voter fraud and other irregularities were in play that changed the lawful results of the election. Demanding that Congress do the same thing today, with voluminous evidence and at least 79 Electoral College votes at stake, simply makes sense.

This shouldn’t just make sense to Trump-supporters, either. Currently, the gaslighting and covering up of evidence by mainstream media, Big Tech, Democrats, and Establishment Republicans have made a plurality of voters—37%-42%, depending on the poll—believe that rampant voter fraud likely “stole” the election for former Vice President Joe Biden. These same polls point to around 30% of voters who are not sure one way or another, which means a third or less of the country believes that Biden won without a doubt. That’s not the level of trust any administration should want.

If Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and the Biden team itself believe in their hearts that the voter fraud perpetrated in favor of Biden was insufficient to change the results of the election, then they should wholeheartedly embrace this call by Senator Cruz to form an election commission. They all claim to want to “unify” and bring both sides together, to “build back better,” and this commission would go a long way to easing the minds of tens of millions of Americans who currently believe the press-anointed “president-elect” is illegitimate.

Here is the press release by Senator Cruz:

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“America is a Republic whose leaders are chosen in democratic elections. Those elections, in turn, must comply with the Constitution and with federal and state law.

“When the voters fairly decide an election, pursuant to the rule of law, the losing candidate should acknowledge and respect the legitimacy of that election. And, if the voters choose to elect a new office-holder, our Nation should have a peaceful transfer of power.

“The election of 2020, like the election of 2016, was hard fought and, in many swing states, narrowly decided. The 2020 election, however, featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities.

“Voter fraud has posed a persistent challenge in our elections, although its breadth and scope are disputed. By any measure, the allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exceed any in our lifetimes.

“And those allegations are not believed just by one individual candidate. Instead, they are widespread. Reuters/Ipsos polling, tragically, shows that 39% of Americans believe ‘the election was rigged.’ That belief is held by Republicans (67%), Democrats (17%), and Independents (31%).

“Some Members of Congress disagree with that assessment, as do many members of the media.

“But, whether or not our elected officials or journalists believe it, that deep distrust of our democratic processes will not magically disappear. It should concern us all. And it poses an ongoing threat to the legitimacy of any subsequent administrations.

“Ideally, the courts would have heard evidence and resolved these claims of serious election fraud. Twice, the Supreme Court had the opportunity to do so; twice, the Court declined.

“On January 6, it is incumbent on Congress to vote on whether to certify the 2020 election results. That vote is the lone constitutional power remaining to consider and force resolution of the multiple allegations of serious voter fraud.

“At that quadrennial joint session, there is long precedent of Democratic Members of Congress raising objections to presidential election results, as they did in 1969, 2001, 2005, and 2017. And, in both 1969 and 2005, a Democratic Senator joined with a Democratic House Member in forcing votes in both houses on whether to accept the presidential electors being challenged.

“The most direct precedent on this question arose in 1877, following serious allegations of fraud and illegal conduct in the Hayes-Tilden presidential race. Specifically, the elections in three states-Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina-were alleged to have been conducted illegally.

“In 1877, Congress did not ignore those allegations, nor did the media simply dismiss those raising them as radicals trying to undermine democracy. Instead, Congress appointed an Electoral Commission-consisting of five Senators, five House Members, and five Supreme Court Justices-to consider and resolve the disputed returns.

“We should follow that precedent. To wit, Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states would evaluate the Commission’s findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed.

“Accordingly, we intend to vote on January 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not ‘regularly given’ and ‘lawfully certified’ (the statutory requisite), unless and until that emergency 10-day audit is completed.

“We are not naïve. We fully expect most if not all Democrats, and perhaps more than a few Republicans, to vote otherwise. But support of election integrity should not be a partisan issue. A fair and credible audit-conducted expeditiously and completed well before January 20-would dramatically improve Americans’ faith in our electoral process and would significantly enhance the legitimacy of whoever becomes our next President. We owe that to the People.

“These are matters worthy of the Congress, and entrusted to us to defend. We do not take this action lightly. We are acting not to thwart the democratic process, but rather to protect it. And every one of us should act together to ensure that the election was lawfully conducted under the Constitution and to do everything we can to restore faith in our Democracy.”

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Trust in the electoral system has never been lower. If Joe Biden truly won, it behooves him to ease the minds of those who believe he cheated. And if he actually lost, then we need to know. Ted Cruz’ call for transparency should make sense to all.

[Guenevere]

Yes! exactly!

[rlmorel]

We need to stop, even well meaning people on our side, even considering that the AntAms (Left, RINOs) want fair elections.

They don’t, and that is clear. We need to stop thinking any of them do, or even might, because they don’t.

And that apparently includes Mitch McConnell and a good deal of republicans, too.

[Guenevere]

My point exactly!

[Nateman]

Ha! The enemy went to great lengths to steal this election and anybody who believes they are going to do anything that gets in the way of their coup needs to stop smoking crack!

[Sacajaweau]

This is about getting an election commission which the President wants to see happen.

We don't want to repeat this in 2024.

But I still have to go back....how the hell did Obama win....twice. The same way that Obama won.

And how did Hillary lose to Obama? That was an impossibility, too.

[Not_Who_U_Think]

I’d like to know more about the process and how the potential reps and judges would be chosen, but this may be as close as we get to an airing of the evidence.

Otherwise, as I understand it, and unless Mike Pence goes Rambo, we get a few hours to talk about it in each chamber, they vote and it’s done. There’s no way the House throws out Biden votes, and it’s pretty iffy in the Senate at the moment.

But, if ten days of adjudication results in the exclusion of electors, then we may have a contested election and a vote in the House. How about this - the House elects Trump, and the Senate elects Harris.

Now that would be one heck of a sitcom ! The jokes almost write themselves.

[Rurudyne]

Will this be like a balanced panel on stalking head show: two or three progressives, a progressive claiming to be a moderate and a moderate claiming to be a conservative?

[Rurudyne]

Pancreatic cancer probably wants nothing to do with them either ... it may have standards after all.

[Rurudyne]

Four years ago people on the Left were begging electors to ignore the votes ... but that was them.

[crz]

UH HUH! As if they can ever be trusted.

[DannyTN]

I agree that this seems a reasonable approach.

• Any state that excluded Republican observers or made it impossible for the observers to observe, should be given to Trump, because it may be impossible to catch the fraud in an audit.2
• There should be severe criminal penalties for blocking credentialed observers enacted, so that this is less likely to happen in the future.
• They should look at the Navarro report and for each claim, determine whether the claim is proven, refuted, has credible witnesses and how many, or cannot be determined either way with confidence. And they should start with the largest claims.
  Washington Post summary of Navarro report
  The Navarro Report as posted on Bannon's Warroom
• They should examine all the swing states ballots using Jovan Hutton Pulitzer's methods.
  
• The audit should include a count of total physical ballots vs reported ballots. The count should be conducted in a way other than the Dominion machines.
• The audit report should include any and all chain of custody issues.
• The audit should include the forensic examinations results of the 3 counties that have been examined. And should go further and examine additional machines and counties.
• The audit should report any missing logs, including adjudication logs.
• The audit should include evidence the machines were communicating on the internet.
• The audit should include an analysis of whether signature audits during the election were sufficient and reasonably accurate.
• The audit should report whether there were any controls to prevent ballots being double scanned and double counted.
• The audit should report whether there was sufficient observation of adjudicated ballots.
• The audit should report what number and what percent of ballots went to adjudication.
• The audit should include a review of voter registration addresses and whether any of them were commercial residences, empty lots, out of state, or registration count exceeded the occupancy of the address location.
• The statistical anomalies should be examined. If there is evidence of Drop and Roll that should be part of the audit report.
• I'd like to know what happened to the overseas servers and whether they were seized and if they have been examined forensically.
• Chinese vendors offering ballot printing should be questioned and evidence of anyone buying ballots for US elections should be brought forward.

[dynachrome]

The result will be a full report:

“Nothing to see here, move along.”

[FreeReign]

They'll call it a Blue Ribbon Commission and it will amount to nothing.

I want to see Trump take the oath on the 20th and I want the stealers prosecuted.

[a fool in paradise]

By any means necessary.

Hillary told Joe Biden DO NOT CONCEDED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES

[Rurudyne]

If Biden does get sworn in Trump’s days are done through some intermediary that they can cover up. Maybe the Iranians. The Democrats may feel that they need a big state funeral of a President to manipulate to their advantage.

[DannyTN]

I'd also like to see professional audit firms engaged by the commission in this process working with observers from both parties. I'm not convinced that legislators and justices understand audit controls sufficiently.

Also the report should include an accessment of transparency in all parts of the election process.

Coming out of this I'd like to see some National standards/regulations implemented for federal elections with penalties for not adhering to them.

[livius]

If they really knew this was an honest election, they’d be rushing to have all of these things examined and make the GOP look like a bunch of sore losers and nutcases. But of course we all know why they don’t want to do that...

[SeekAndFind]

REP. ERIC "BANG FANG FANG" SWALLWELL JUST TWEETED:

[KJC1]

Eric Swalwell asking people to “name and shame” these Senators?

Two-way street MFer.

Things are on a very different level now.

[wiseprince]

They don’t want unity with the people. D.C, If you haven’t noticed is already unified. What they want is power.