one guy in new jersey wrote: “Pence going limp, and failing to throw a totally justified constitutional fit, sealed disappointed Trump’s fate in ‘21 and ensured that brain-addled Biden would become Prexy.”
Stop and think for a minute.
Do you really want the VP to have the power to determine which electoral votes count and which do not?
If the VP had that power, Biden would have ensured Hillary as President in 2016.
one guy in new jersey wrote: “The federal goverr nment must rein in the states when it comes to the election of members of the federal congressional HoR and Senate, VPOTUS, and POTUS.”
So, now you want to tear up the Constitution? You do know the Constitution gives unlimited powers to the states on running their elections and selecting things like who representst them in Congress and their electors? I thought it was only democrats who wanted to federalize the elections.
one guy in new jersey wrote: “This means we keep throwing the Bad Orange Man at the quadrennial Republican convention every four years without fail until they get off their fat duffs and go about fixing the problem that Mclellan-like Pence in his effeminate weakness blew off in 2021.”
Nothing like hitting yourself in the face to prove a point. That’s exactly what that amounts too. And endless parade of democrat presidents until you get your un-Constitutional way.
Note that the Federal Constitution does not specify the the VPOTUS’s 1/6 role is strictly ministerial.
Nor does it preclude him from leaning on a given state whose process for selecting the slate of electors pledged to this or that POTUS candidate stinks to high heaven.
The sitting VPOTUS should do this, if morally certain that fraud has taken place, by (1) refusing immediately (or seasonably, after objections are heard and considered) to certify those electoral votes submitted by that state, (2) demanding adequate and immediate accountability commensurate with the issues raised, and (3) hold out the real potential for the candidate in question to suffer the ultimate penalty of having those objected-to votes declared void, and the 50+ percent required Electoral Vote tally adjusted to reflect the total exclusion of that state’s votes from the POTUS and VPOTUS electoral college contest.
Watch the first state embarrassed in this way to get religion in no more than one electoral heartbeat. That state will render its state-level federal election processes pure as the wind-driven snow, and thereby make its quadrennial Electoral College vote tally submissions bulletproof, and thereby legally and (perhaps most importantly) politically unassailable by a sitting VPOTUS of the opposite political party than that of the POTUS candidate said by the SOS of that state to have prevailed in that state.