Posted on 01/29/2023 8:40:01 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
As a side note to this thread, please consider the following.
I hope that Rep. Jordan's committee at least acknowledges that Democratic and RINO lawmakers at the time failed to do the following concerning J6 allegations of possible vote-counting fraud in 2020 and 2022 elections.
More specifically, lawmakers seemingly failed to do their sworn duties to protect both the 12th Amendment (12A; electoral vote procedure) and Section 2 of the 14th Amendment (14A), that section a penalty for states where vote-counting fraud has occurred.
Excerpted from 12A:
"The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate [emphasis added], ..."
Excerpted from 14A:
"Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." [Apportionment of Representatives]"."Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
Regarding 12A, consider that the states surrendered their power to make state winner-take-all laws when they ratified that amendment imo.
In fact, Justice Joseph Story had put it this way about the otherwise obvious consequence of feuding political parties dividing a state's electoral votes.
"In case of any party divisions in a state, it may neutralize its whole vote [emphasis added], while all the other states give an unbroken electoral vote." —Justice Joseph Story, Article 2, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3, Commentaries on the Constitution 3, 1833."
Regarding Section 2 of 14A, consider that the post-Civil War congressional Republicans who drafted Section 2 made it to discourage southern Democrats (my word) from rigging the ballot boxes that Democrats are now alleged to have done for 2020, and now 2022 elections!
"Because slavery (except as punishment for crime) had been abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, the freed slaves would henceforth be given full weight for purposes of apportionment. This situation was a concern to the Republican leadership of Congress, who worried that it would increase the political power of the former slave states, even as such states continued to deny freed slaves the right to vote." —Apportionment of Representatives
I hope that Jordan committee agrees with the hopefully growing court of public opinion that, aside from the corrupt states that cheat the ballot box, the bigger problem is that we have a likewise corrupt federal government that is not willing to enforce constitutionally enumerating voting integrity safeguards.
Don't forget that at a previous time, Biden also threatened to use nuclear bombs in addition to fighter jets.
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