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Donald Trump to be declared electoral college winner today
CBC ^ | January 6, 2017

Posted on 01/06/2017 1:57:56 AM PST by SMGFan

The end of the 2016 presidential election is at hand. A joint session of Congress is set to count the Electoral College votes on Friday, a traditional ending to a most unconventional presidential election.

Barring something bizarre happening, Republican Donald Trump will be declared the winner and will be sworn in at his inauguration on Jan. 20. All 538 electors met in their respective state capitals in December to cast their votes. Trump finished with 304 votes and Democrat Hillary Clinton with 227, according to a tally by The Associated Press. It takes 270 Electoral College votes to win the presidency

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: certification; electoralvotes
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The final Constitutional step before Inauguration!

"Barring something bizarre happening," The Writer is an idiot.

1 posted on 01/06/2017 1:57:56 AM PST by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

January 6, 2017
Counting of Electoral College Votes The House and Senate convene for a joint session of Congress to verify certificates and count electoral college votes from each state for president and vice president of the United States.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?421237-1/joint-session-congress-meets-certify-electoral-college-results

Airing LIVE Friday, Jan 06 1:00pm EST on C-SPAN


2 posted on 01/06/2017 1:59:49 AM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar -- Yes, I know, she is now supports HRC :()
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To: SMGFan

“Barring something bizarre happening”

Wishful thinking?


3 posted on 01/06/2017 2:01:33 AM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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To: Leep

Hope the Dems and the Liberal media keep stuff up like this. They are digging a very big hole.


4 posted on 01/06/2017 2:05:42 AM PST by CptnObvious
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To: Leep

The only hitch? House Democrats must get the support of a U.S. Senator to move the challenge to an official congressional debate — something Hoyer doubts is possible. According to Politico, who first reported the protest, if the House members secure the backing of a Senator, the House and Senate would have to debate each Electoral College vote.
“I don’t frankly think he’s going to get a Senator to join in with him, which the process requires,” said Hoyer. But, “if he has the Senator, I will support him.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/top-democrat-support-challenge-electoral-vote-certification/story?id=44582828


5 posted on 01/06/2017 2:06:27 AM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar -- Yes, I know, she is now supports HRC :()
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To: SMGFan


6 posted on 01/06/2017 2:16:33 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon)
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To: SMGFan
"Barring something bizarre happening," The Writer is an idiot.

Why is the writer an idiot?

Maybe you need to educate yourself about the process.

Today's proceeding is the final vetting of the election process. If Scheiß is going to happen (that's a "bizarre happening" for those of you in Rio Linda), this is the final chance.

E.g., if Harvard Law Moron Lessig had been successful in rounding up faithless electors, the procedure would have been to disqualify their votes this morning, thereby throwing the election to the House and electing Trump. Now that would have been bizarre! But correct! And fortunately unnecessary.

In the event, it was Hillary who lost the most electors to faithlessness.

7 posted on 01/06/2017 2:27:45 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

See my post #5, I refer to the possible challenge.
I think most MSM are idiots or worse.


8 posted on 01/06/2017 2:35:30 AM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar -- Yes, I know, she is now supports HRC :()
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CBC’s hoping for ‘something bizarre’ to happen?

Journalism is so dead. Just throw dirt over it already.


9 posted on 01/06/2017 2:36:00 AM PST by Bullish
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To: cynwoody; SMGFan

There is a tiny, amusing, masochistic group of lefties who think they can get a number of electors disqualified for things like not having residency, etc.

These are the same people who wanted Recountmas, then ECmas and now Confirmmas.

It takes a special kind of stupid to lose the same election 4 times.

My Liberal Tears mug (a picture of which will get you hidden on FB btw) runneth over!


10 posted on 01/06/2017 2:44:51 AM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo: not just the worst president in American history - worst *American* in American history (turf)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Thank You 😀 Ahh the Sweet memories.
11 posted on 01/06/2017 2:57:54 AM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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Maybe I am just twisted but those pictures of the crying hillibots make me laugh every time.


12 posted on 01/06/2017 3:20:34 AM PST by shelterguy
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If Trump does a fantastic job, those crying idiots are going to look like even bigger idiots down the road and I’m going to be right there front and center shoving it in their face LOL! “Unemployment is the lowest it’s ever been in US history and you idiots were crying like babies because he won the election.”


13 posted on 01/06/2017 3:30:39 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon)
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To: SMGFan

ANOTHER win? I could get used to this...


14 posted on 01/06/2017 3:35:00 AM PST by Libloather (Hillary - the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: shelterguy

They are heartwarming, aren’t they?


15 posted on 01/06/2017 3:42:12 AM PST by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: SMGFan

They do not have to debate every vote, or any vote. A motion to accept the votes is always in order.

I did not know this, but RATs mounted a challenge to the count in 2000 and in 2004. It took five minutes to dispose of, as it will today.


16 posted on 01/06/2017 3:46:28 AM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: shelterguy

It’s the best kind of porn there is. I can look at it for hours.


17 posted on 01/06/2017 3:50:38 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Freedom Trumps Fascism)
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To: freedumb2003
"It takes a special kind of stupid to lose the same election 4 times."

I was just thinking something similar myself. They challenge or question the result.... then Donald J Trump is announced winner.... again :)

18 posted on 01/06/2017 3:54:06 AM PST by protest1
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To: SMGFan

The white van carrying the electoral votes to the Capitol has been lost! Cannot be located. GPS was turned off! Nobody knows what happened. Maybe Russians?

Another batch of electoral votes just got delivered by Amazon Prime and the suspense is mounting. The shipping label had a Chappaqua return address. The delivery driver looked a lot like Huma Weiner.

Oh noes! This could be the end of Trump!


19 posted on 01/06/2017 3:54:56 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: SMGFan

The goal of all the delegitimizing. That POS currently in the White House will do anything. Inauguration day can’t come soon enough.


20 posted on 01/06/2017 4:00:34 AM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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