Posted on 01/04/2021 8:12:08 AM PST by Red Badger
The House of Representatives and the Senate on Sunday adopted rules that outline how the counting of Electoral College votes will take place on Jan. 6.
The rules were passed without recorded votes. Instead, a voice vote was used in both chambers.
The guidance, introduced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), says the chambers will meet in a joint session on Jan. 6 presided over by Vice President Mike Pence.
Pence, as president of the Senate, will open “all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes,” the rules state, a nod to how seven states sent so-called competing electors, or certificates for both Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump, to Washington.
The certificates and papers will be opened, presented, and acted upon in alphabetical order, starting with Alabama.
This is when dozens of Republicans—50 representatives and 12 senators, according to an Epoch Times tally—are planning to object to some certificates, alleging election irregularities including voter fraud and failure to follow state election laws.
That will trigger a withdrawal from the joint session and a two-hour debate, followed by votes in each chamber. Only with a majority vote from both the House and the Senate would a challenge be upheld, which even supporters find unlikely, considering Democrats who control the House and Senate Republican leadership, including McConnell, have expressed disapproval with the plan to object.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a letter to colleagues on Sunday noted that objections can happen but said, at the end of the day, Biden “will be officially declared the next president.”
“On Monday, we will have a clearer picture of how many state votes will be subject to an objection. Our choice is not to use the forum to debate the presidency of Donald Trump,” she added.
Reps. Ron Estes (R-Kan.), Tracey Mann (R-Kan.), and Jacob LaTurner (R-Kan.) said Sunday they will join in the objections, saying in a statement that several states are “facing serious allegations of voter fraud and violations of their own state law.”
“This action is not taken lightly and comes after extensive study and research. Kansans deserve to know that all legal, and only legal, votes were counted. We hope our actions begin to restore the confidence of tens of millions of our fellow Americans that feel their sacred right to vote is under attack,” they added.
Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) also announced Sunday they’ll object.
But seven Republican representatives, including several strong Trump supporters, said they will not join in the effort, and denounced the move.
“Of the six states as to which questions have been raised, five have legislatures that are controlled by Republicans, and they all have the power to send a new slate of electoral votes to Congress if they deem such action appropriate under state law. Unless that happens between now and Jan. 6, 2021, Congress will have no authority to influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election,” the group wrote in a statement.
“To take action otherwise—that is, to unconstitutionally insert Congress into the center of the presidential election process—would amount to stealing power from the people and the states. It would, in effect, replace the Electoral College with Congress, and in so doing strengthen the efforts of those on the left who are determined to eliminate it or render it irrelevant.”
The weekend saw a flurry of action, with 11 senators following Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) in announcing they’d join in the objections unless Congress appoints a commission to examine alleged election irregularities. The idea is modeled on the panel formed in 1877 amid a contested election.
Hawley’s Dec. 30 announcement triggered a number of House members to announce their intention to object. The number planning to do so has more than doubled since then.
A segment of Republicans are focusing on Pence’s role in the proceedings. They sued the vice president and asked a court to rule he has the “exclusive authority” to decide between dueling electors.
A judge dismissed the case and an appeals court rejected an appeal.
Pence had asked the court to dismiss the suit but said through a spokesman on Saturday that he supports efforts to challenge electoral votes.
“Vice President Pence shares the concerns of millions of Americans about voter fraud and irregularities in the last election,” Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, said in the statement sent to media outlets.
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The fix is in. That’s exactly what I came to say. It’s expected that the Democrats would ignore the facts. But for Mitch McConnell and the RINOS in the Senate to do the same?
Despicable.
Looks like Nancy is going to get her wish....
Because Trump will NOT let Biden/Harris take office.
He has the goods on them... maybe Nancy too.
They’re trying their damndest aren’t they?
Pardon Assange and have the entirety of the Hunter Biden laptop, Russiagate, Kennedy files, and Lin Wood’s new videos all dumped January 5.
Also, and this is just a guess, look for a ‘white hat hack’ of the GA election — just move the vote totals up or down a million or to zero and force Dems to sue and admit in Court that the election system is open to hacking.
Crazy week ahead!
Congress is a part of the electoral process you fools. This has nothing to do with destroying that. I’m VERY confident that the founders didn’t added purely ceremonial steps to the process. That is the purview of modern, compromised, politicians.
Ammo up for the 20th. And by ammo, I mean food, water, and all the other stuff one considers acquiring for a SHTF event. And if Biden is sworn in, that is what it will be.
And just to be clear, I’m not saying everything will happen that day. Rather, that is when it will almost certainly ramp up in Ernest.
It will increase from there, almost certainly, and partly because people are just done with the lockdowns and stripping us of our rights for month after month.
FACT: it is the Constitution that determines
election procedure.
FACT: the court du jour, fat SOS, CCP-controlled
and Soros-paid officials, nor Congress
can change the above without Amendment.
But the goods require review by a neutral arbiter. Where can one be found, in these times?
How convenient. Don't know who voted for and who voted against.
Add McConnell’s name to Roberts and Barr, et al.
I am going by half a dozen places today to buy whatever ammo and reloading supplies I can get my hands on.
Voice vote only, no records..
And now a community message from the Uniparty
F**k ewe, slaves.
If you might not get your way, just change the rules.
This Congress is way out of control.
“He has the goods on them... maybe Nancy too.”
What goods?
The Seditious Seven say the objections are unconstitutional. I would like to hear that argument.
The Seditious Seven prefer a rubber stamp congress. Not sure why anyone voted for them. Anyone can be a rubber stamp.
Who is Ernest? Is he ‘earnest’ ‘s brother?
So a handful of GOP object, as they should, but not enough to change any result, but they hope we voters who still think there is a shred of legitimacy in the voting process, will remember them and not vote them out if we even vote in the future.
I read on one Thread here that the Procedure Rules. cannot be changed in an Election cycle , they can but not during an Election cycle.
Anyone know about that ?
I am still waiting for someone to explain to me how Trump presenting more evidence tonight or Wednesday will affect how the Congress will vote. They have already ignored tons of evidence, so why should another ton move them.
Trump has to use enforcement power or it is over.
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