Posted on 11/10/2020 5:58:30 PM PST by Mariner
WASHINGTON — Republicans in the Pennsylvania state legislature on Tuesday said they would take “extraordinary measures” to find out whether the election in their state was fair, despite having no evidence of any wrongdoing.
State Rep. Dawn Keefer, a Republican from York County, announced that Republicans in the state legislature would move to conduct an audit of the election, and that the state should not certify the election results, or select electors to the Electoral College, until it is completed.
“The General Assembly needs to take extraordinary measures to answer these extraordinary questions,” Keefer said while speaking in front of a group of a dozen or so House Republicans.
But Keefer admitted that she and the Pennsylvania GOP do not have anything more than questions. There is no evidence of anything resembling coordinated cheating in the election.
“We've just gotten a lot of allegations,” Keefer said, referring to what she said was a flurry of calls and e-mails from voters “who are concerned and outraged by the circumstances surrounding this election.”
Of course, the only circumstances that would lead any voter to believe there might have been cheating has been the evidence-free complaints from President Trump that such cheating did occur, and that Democrats are trying to cheat.
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“The Legislature has complete control over a state’s election.”
Slight correction: the legislature has complete authority to determine laws, methods and protocols etc.
However, they ceded administrative control to the Governor and the County executives.
And their rules/laws and execution are subject to multiple Federal laws and multiple elements of the constitution.
But the constitution reserves to them, exclusively, to determine how their electors are selected and appointed. And whom those electors are sworn to vote for.
The underlying premise in delegating the selection of electors to the voters is that the voters vote according to the terms of the legislature’s laws. If that premise fails, and electors are sent based on a vote done contrary to the legislature’s laws, the delegation can sensibly be withdrawn and the legislature’s underlying authority exercised directly.
Is this reporter Rip Van Winkle? There is one lawsuit working its way through the US District Court in Pennsylvania and one pending before the Supreme Court of the United States.
No evidence? This reporter must be delusional.
Same people who say vote fraud is rarer than an asteroid strike. In that case Pennsylvania had about a million asteroid strikes this past week.
“This would be an audit aided by the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Administration of the Department of Homeland Security”
Do you have a source for that?
Mister Ward:
Do your homework.
https://cdn.donaldjtrump.com/public-files/press_assets/2020-11-09-complaint-as-filed.pdf
Yep. Legislators are not going to overturn the votes of their constituents. That’d be suicide.
However if the state’s Executive did not follow the laws they wrote, and distorted the vote- then they can and should correct the vote.
The key point is that the wishes of the voters should not be frustrated by either the Legislature OR the Executive of the state.
If, by Pennsylvania law, electors are allocated based on the popular vote then how can the legislature change that except through another law? And if they pass such a law after the election then what are the chances of the governor signing it or the courts upholding it?
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Seems to me that the legitimate popular vote would be the standard-not to include unlawful votes.
The legislature’s law provided that all absentee/VBM ballots must be received by no later than a certain time on election day.
Any votes after that time are unlawful. Toss the unlawful votes and POTUS wins by a big amount. Republicans send electors to vote in electoral college according to the legitimate popular vote.
It’s the narrative they have been given..
“there is no fraud here, this is not the fraud you are looking for”
At this point, with all the back and forth with the PA Supremes allowing this, that, and the other thing, nevermind their equally corrupt Governor, I’ll point to the U.S. Constitution, which supersedes ALL state laws that it is explicitly up to the state legislatures to send the Electors to D.C. In the face of massive voter fraud, it is up to the Republican legislature to take that into account and act accordingly.
The Governor has no say in the matter, not in any state. The legislature does.
They lie like they breathe.
Democrat registrations outnumber Republicans by 4 to 3 in Pennsylvania. This means if there are 1.4 million votes to be counted and every democrat votes for Biden and every Republican votes for Trump then Biden should get no more than 800000 to Trumps 600000.
Trump led Biden on election day at 10pm by Seven Hundred Eighty Thousand votes (780000).
With one million mail-in-ballots remaining, Biden got nearly 10 of every 11 votes after 10pm. This is a statistical impossibility.
Trump really won Pennsylvania by at least two hundred thousand votes.
Smith: Please read the Constitution BEFORE posting.
Assuming you're talking about the votes that arrived within three days of election day and were postmarked no later than November 2nd, by Supreme Court order those votes are being tallied separately and are not reflected in the totals that the Secretary of State has released. So if Biden is winning by 48,000 votes without the disputed votes being factored in then the legislature should respect the 'voice of the people', right?
Art. II Sect 1
Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
No, the Governor has been given the authority *in all states* to conduct the elections as the Legislature has prescribed.
Believe it or not there is good reason to separate the legislation and the execution of laws.
The issue is if the Executive did not faithfully execute the Law.
And, also, that that failure mattered.
How stupid to you want to proclaim yourself?
Is there any limit?
Fixed it.
Those votes are being tallied separately and are not in the totals that the Secretary of State has released. Alito's order mandates that. So without them Biden is still up by almost 50,000 votes.
Which is not to say there isn't fraud elsewhere. They just need to find solid evidence of that for the court challenges.
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