[Tench_Coxe]

"If you once served as Vice President of the United States, polling below 5% in your own party's presidential primary can trigger a stream of unbridled bitterness."

Not my concern.

[SeekAndFind]

Both Nixon and Pence, and other VPs since 1877, operated under the Electoral Commission Act of 1877, passed after the contentious 1876 election between Rutherford Hayes and Samuel Tilden.

The 1877 Act did not limit the VP’s role only to something ceremonial, but instead, established a procedure for handling competing electors from each state.

The Act established a special Electoral Commission with fifteen members, including five members from the Senate, five members from the House, and five Supreme Court Justices.

Pence could have arguably sent disputed electors to that Commission. Instead, he acted as if he had no authority to do anything.

It was ONLY AFTER the 2020 Election, that the Democrat controlled Congress amended the 1877 Act to declare that the VP’s role is only “ministerial in nature.” But as President Trump has asked, if the VP’s role were merely “ministerial” or “ceremonial” to begin with, why now pass a law declaring it ministerial?

[V K Lee]

In two shakes of a dead lamb’s tale, one party or the other
will be on the floor addressing this issue. To the party’s
full advantage, of course. Amendment to our Constitution?
How do we interpret it? Just a stamp of approval or discuss
the possibility of fraud in any form. Seems the State’s SoS
is to be held acountable for any which might be foud (before
any approval) Remembering Catherine Harris/Fla. She caught
flack due to the total count be given BEFORE the deadline
date. And if she he had just stamped the tally?