Posted on 08/03/2023 4:03:04 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Irregularities in the 2020 presidential election, as alleged by former President Donald Trump, are creeping back into the minds of registered Republicans and GOP-leaning independents.
A full 69% of those voters say they have doubts President Joe Biden legitimately received the votes that propelled him to the White House over Trump, according to the latest CNN poll.
Notably, that number is back on the rise to nearly 70% after previous polls showed it declining to 63%. The rise to 69% is still below the 2021 high of 72% of those saying they doubted Biden's Electoral College victory was legitimate.
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That’s a lot of felony convictions right there.
Even if he got the votes (which is unlikely) its the states own fault for not making sure voting is as secure as possible to remove any doubt.
We’re gonna need a bigger prison.
For anyone who lived through Election Night 2020, and watched Trump winning comfortably at 11:00 P.M. EST, only to lose that massive lead by the following morning, skepticism about the election will always remain intense. (And it seems more people are getting skeptical by the day.)
That skepticism is hardened by stories of municipalities that actually stopped counting during the night and reopened with large Biden pluralities.
The 570 were mostly kept in “restricted housing,” which translates to solitary confinement or other extreme denials of privileges normally granted to the general prison population.
So a large number of Americans are being held without trial under conditions that the Geneva Conventions would object to. Moreover, they violate the Constitution’s promise of both a speedy trial and the right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment (especially before a trial is carried out with the proper due process and an actual conviction).
69%??? Tell Jack(booted thug) Smith to arrest them for thinking that.
What with all the video evidence alone, I’m disappointed that it’s only 69%.
When Trump is gone they will be coming for us.
I have no doubt Biden got 81 million votes. The question I have is, was there 81 million legitimate(live, non-illegal alien) voters who cast those votes? Obviously from the footage of Ruby Freeman feeding votes into the machines, the answer is NO.
Haha
But Mike Pence “knows”
FTA-— In 2021, 72% say they doubted Biden’s Electoral College victory was legitimate.
pic-—Some presidential electors are lobbying their counterparts in other states to reject their oaths to vote against Donald Trump when the Electoral College meets on Dec. 19. | AP Photo
Politico, By KYLE CHENEY
11/22/2016 05:09 AM EST
At least a half-dozen Democratic electors have signed onto an attempt to block Donald Trump from winning an Electoral College majority, an effort designed not only to deny Trump the presidency but also to undermine the legitimacy of the institution.
The presidential electors, mostly former Bernie Sanders supporters who hail from Washington state and Colorado, are now lobbying their Republican counterparts in other states to reject their oaths — and in some cases, state law — to vote against Trump when the Electoral College meets on Dec. 19.
Even the most optimistic among the Democratic electors acknowledges they’re unlikely to persuade the necessary 37 Republican electors to reject Trump — the number they’d likely need to deny him the presidency and send the final decision to the House of Representatives. And even if they do, the Republican-run House might simply elect Trump anyway.
But the Democratic electors are convinced that even in defeat, their efforts would erode confidence in the Electoral College and fuel efforts to eliminate it, ending the body’s 228-year run as the only official constitutional process for electing the president. With that goal in mind, the group is also contemplating encouraging Democratic electors to oppose Hillary Clinton and partner with Republicans in support of a consensus pick like Mitt Romney or John Kasich.
The underlying idea is that a mass defection of electors could provide the impetus for a wave of changes to the Electoral College.
“I do think that a byproduct would be a serious look into Electoral College reform,” said Micheal Baca, a Democratic elector from Colorado who is spearheading the anti-Trump effort, along with Washington state elector P. Bret Chiafalo.
“If it gets into the House, the controversy and the uncertainty that would immediately blow up into a political firestorm in the U.S. would cause enough people — my hope is — to look at the whole concept of the Electoral College,” said another elector involved in the anti-Trump planning, who declined to be identified.
One prominent Electoral College critic says that even if Trump wins easily on Dec. 19, a small number of Republican defections could still roil the future of the institution.
“If you could get eight or 10 Trump electors to vote for someone else ... then that would probably get people’s attention,” said George Edwards III, a political science professor and Electoral College expert at Texas A&M University. “We haven’t ever had that many faithless electors in one election.”
Democratic elector Polly Baca (no relation to Micheal) said the Electoral College should be returned to its original conception — as laid outby Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers — as a deliberative body able to exercise free choice while using popular votes only as a guide.
“If we cannot use the Electoral College as a deliberative process ... then we ought to do away with it,” said Baca, a former co-chairman of the Democratic National Convention and former Colorado state senator.
The 538 members who comprise the Electoral College are slated to gather in their respective state capitals on Dec. 19 to cast the formal vote for president. Trump won the popular vote in states making up 290 electoral votes — and he’s leading narrowly in Michigan, which carries another 16 electoral votes. If all of them vote for Trump, he’ll win 306 electoral votes, easily exceeding the 270-vote majority he needs to become president. That’s why the magic number is 37 Republican defections.
Dozens of Republican electors, picked at state and local party conventions, have signaled discomfort with Trump, but most have committed to supporting him despite their misgivings. Only a handful have said they’d consider voting against him in the Electoral College.
One, Texas’ Art Sisneros, said he’s still making up his mind. South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard, another elector,called on Trump to withdraw from the race after a tape of his comments about sexually assaulting women leaked in October. But he’s since confirmed he’d still support Trump with his electoral vote.
A slew of Democrats, on the other hand, have also signaled they may defect from Clinton, which wouldn’t help or hinder Trump’s path to the White House but could contribute to a sense of disarray and voter disenfranchisement.
In any case, it’s hard to know exactly how many faithless electors may be out there because there’s no organized effort by candidates or parties to whip votes or track support.
Polly Baca, who’s still considering whether to cast her vote against Clinton, said that she’ll decide in part based on whether there’s a strategic consensus reached with other Democrats to vote for another candidate.
Already, the six Democrats prepared to be “faithless” electors would be the most to defect from their party’s presidential candidate since 1872, when Democratic nominee Horace Greeley died before electors cast their votes. The last time that many electors rejected a living presidential candidate was 1808.
Robert Nemanich, another Colorado elector prepared to cast a faithless vote, said he’s spoken to five electors in his state alone who intend to join him.
The rarity of the faithless elector phenomenon is rooted in electors’ reluctance to reject the will of the voters. But it’s also because 29 states — including Colorado and Washington — have laws mandating that electors support the winner of the state popular vote.
These laws, though, have never been enforced or challenged. And some of them impose only modest fines but provide no recourse to change the outcome.
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Trump transition beats the press
Politico, BY HADAS GOLD | NOVEMBER 21, 2016 03:21 PM
In recent elections, the Electoral College has become an increasingly vexing issue for Democrats, who won the popular vote in 2000, only to see George W. Bush take the White House because of the electoral vote math. Should the college vote for Trump, as expected, it’ll be the same story: Clinton led the popular vote by about 1.7 million votes as of Monday morning.
To repeal the Electoral College outright would require a constitutional amendment — and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) conveniently proposed one last week. But it’s unlikely to advance in a Republican-controlled Congress. Another measure, a multistate compact already enacted in 11 states, would require electors to support the winner of the national popular vote. But that would take effect only if enough states join to comprise a majority of the Electoral College.
So far, the11 signatory states — all solidly Democratic — make up just 165 electoral votes.
Ironically, Democrats have taken heart from Trump’s own statements regarding the Electoral College. In the past, the president-elect has called the body a “disaster for democracy.” In 2012, he urged supporters to march on Washington when he believed Mitt Romney had won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College.
His views haven’t changed. In a recent,post-election interview with “60 Minutes,” he said, “I would rather see it where you went with simple votes.”
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IfTrump wins, all democrats will believe there is fraud
If Trump loses all republicans will believe there is fraud
Even if it is 100% legit which it wont be.
If Biden would steal money via selling out the country people don’t think he would steal votes?
“The GOPe doesn’t care, it’s their last days...”
The GOPe are allied with the Democrats to keep Trump from gaining the Presidency again.
I watched lose 950,000 votes overnight in PA.
Almost ALL new votes went to Biden with minimal increases in Dem down ticket candidates.
Trump lose 950,000
Is it a store’s ‘fault’ when they get robbed? What about a woman being raped? Her fault?
Voter Fraud is a crime and it’s easy to do because democrats want it easy.
31% of GOP voters have been gaslighted.
Yeah it’s the rape victims fault for wearing a skirt.
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