Posted on 09/10/2020 12:06:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Apparently, there are more states than just Arizona which will vote for Trump but have a majority Democrats in their House delegations.
On the upside, we know for 100 percent certainty that no House Republican would vote against Trump in such a situation.
The new House is sworn in first working day in January. The POTUS isn’t sworn in until the 20th.................
I dunno. Will they have to attend the junior college? /dumb democrat impression.
Awesome. Please, Lord, let the Democrats be wiped out. In Jesus' name, amen.
Not to argue but I thought it was the currently seated House that casts the votes, not the incoming class which isn't sworn in until early January iirc.
democrats are deliberately doing things now so that the election will be sent to the house of representatives. That is their strategy. They will sue and contest everything. They will make it chaos on election night.
We know what the house will do. The same vicious savages who voted for impeachment will be in charge. That is their plan.
Concurrent with that, will be the riots which they are going to keep going until after the election. The sight of cities burning, and an uncertain outcome of the election, will have the public clamoring for a resolution.
Because it's DC he won't have to invokes the Insurrection Act.
Hah! Beautiful! Thank you for posting this.
The Electors are chosen by the State Legislatures. There is no such thing as a "Presidential race" in the Constitution, and it is completely unnecessary for the appointment of Electors.
There is no "voting for President" in the US Constitution. Voting is not necessary for the appointment of Electors.
Most likely.
Amendment XX
Section 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
The new Congress counts the electoral votes, not the old one.
When the new Congress convenes, its first task (I believe in joint session) is to count the electoral votes.
The electors meet in December (December 16 this year, I believe) in their state capitals. They vote. The votes are certified by the state and then sent to Congress.
When the new Congress convenes, it counts those electoral votes and announces the results.
Well, my point is, they could keep counting (and manufacturing votes via mail-in ballots and doing Fraudulent ballot harvesting) for months!
“The sight of cities burning, and an uncertain outcome of the election, will have the public clamoring for a resolution.”
The sight of cities burning, and an uncertain outcome of the election, will have the public shooting and hanging rioters by the thousands.
There are statutory deadlines in 3 USC, Chapter 1.
Counting electoral ballots starts on Jan 6. (3 USC 15)
Sttes can confuse the process by seldning more than one slate of ballots. I expect DEM states to do this, send DEM electoral ballots even if Trump wins the state, based on "popular vote" or some other rationale.
There is 2 hour time limit for debate (3 USC 17), but that doesn't resolve a situation when the vote is tied.
I think the reality is that the US is no longer a regime of orderly transfer of power. We literally are a banana republic.
“In the current makeup of the House...”
I may be wrong, but isn’t a contingent election in the House based upon the incoming House of Representatives, not the outgoing?
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