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To: campaignPete R-CT

“It goes to the other system of each state delegation getting one vote if the electoral college fails to produce a majority”
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A claim was made that Pence would throw out all the votes of the contested states, leaving both candidates without a majority. Then the vote would move to the House.


35 posted on 12/30/2020 8:12:19 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Donald J. Trump is the rightful President of the USA and his own party won't admit that.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

If Pence throws out all votes of the contested states,
then Trump will get 232 and byedone 227, and Trump wins, because the votes of those states do not count and no one has to get to 270!


88 posted on 12/31/2020 5:27:31 AM PST by chrisnj (threats)
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To: SaxxonWoods; jpsb

an objection to an elector or electors on January 6, 2021, there is a recent precedent. In January 2005, Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Senator Barbara Boxer objected to Ohio’s electoral votes for George W. Bush, alleging “they were not in all known circumstances regularly given.” The House and Senate met separately as required and using a roll call vote the objections were widely rejected. The House denied the objection in 31-267 vote, and the Senate denied it in a 1-74 vote.

Scott Bomboy is the editor in chief of

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/explaining-how-congress-settles-electoral-college-disputes

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91 posted on 12/31/2020 5:46:47 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (Committee to Re-Elect the President ( CREEP ) )
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