If Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania can't certify because they can't finish counting, the Congress will wind up counting 260-232, and if ONE elector votes for Ryan or Romney or Bush, you will have a very volatile situation as the election moves to the House.
Nope....doesn’t work that way.
The Demonrats are going to be in four corners staul mode like the old North Carolina /Dean Smith basketball teams...
I believe your read of the situation is incorrect. The Constitution states that the winner of the EC is whoever has a majority of EC votes from the pool of appointed electors.
If WI, PA, and MI can’t appoint electors then the total number of electors is no longer 538. Total electors would be 492, meaning the winner would need 247 or more to win. If these three states don’t send electors, Trump still has 260 which is more than the 247 required in this scenario.
HRC cannot win by knocking these states out of the EC. She has to flip them blue.
I would also note that if the dems were to knock these states from the EC then campaigning against dems in those states for 2018 will be easy. Don’t vote D, they will disenfranchise you.
might as well just drive by the county recorders office and drop your ballot in the dumpster out back and save them a step
Amendment XII
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The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.
The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed;
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He needs tto lose all three to get under 270.
“If Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania can’t certify because they can’t finish counting, the Congress will wind up counting 260-232, and if ONE elector votes for Ryan or Romney or Bush, you will have a very volatile situation as the election moves to the House”
All Trump needs is to keep one of those three states and it doesn’t matter which one. Then he wins in the electoral college.
If it goes to the House, Trump wins. Hillary needs all three states to reverse before the safe harbor date. If any one state, doesn’t matter which one, cant meet the deadline and forfeits its electoral votes, then Trump is guaranteed the Presidency one way or the other.
Not true. The 12A says nothing about the number of electors needed, it just says "majority".
To win by subtraction, she needs to get Trump under her total. What she really needs to do is to flip the three states. Very hard to do, but no amount of cheating is beyond her.
No. Wrong. The constitution says a majority of the electors. Not a majority of 538