Posted on 12/15/2020 3:39:47 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Unwittingly or not, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), cryptically provided justification for the US Congress to nullify Georgia’s slate of Electors to the Electoral college in his announcement of a signature match audit of Cobb County in his state. Raffensperger announced the audit after claims of voter fraud, just a very few claims of vote fraud his office has taken action on.
The Secretary of State told reporters Monday that he launched the audit in order to restore Georgians’ faith in the election.
Describing himself as a “conservative Constitutional Republican”, a claim many of his Republican colleagues in elected office have disputed given his lack of action to date on protecting the Constitution amid a sea of voter fraud and ballot tampering in his state, Raffensperger said his goal is to “make our elections accurate.”
Raffensperger again refused to acknowledge the existence of the mountain of evidence pointing to vote fraud and ballot tampering in his state.
He went on to say he would be working on a “third party signature match statewide audit study” that would be produced in coordination with an accredited university.
He also indicated that his office is currently working with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, “to conduct a signature match audit in Cobb County following specific reports that the county failed to adequately conduct signature matching. This audit will take around two weeks but will not change the outcome of the November elections.”
A determination that the Cobb County vote was flawed or affected by vote fraud or ballot tampering would suggest other counties suffered the same malfeasance and, thus, open an avenue for the whole of the state’s slate of Electors to be rejected by the joint session of Congress that tallies the Electoral College Certificates of Certification from each state.
The Certificates of Certification of the vote, attested to by the seated slate of Electors from each state, will be received and voted on in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021. It is at this time the Electoral College elects the President and Vice President of the United States.
It is also at this time that challenges to the certificates will be submitted. Should one US Representative and one US Senator object, then a series of debates and procedures would then play out if there is enough approval from members of the joint session. This could potentially lead to a contingent election, and an almost certain second term for President Donald Trump.
“A determination that the Cobb County vote was flawed or affected by vote fraud or ballot tampering would suggest other counties suffered the same malfeasance and, thus, open an avenue for the whole of the state’s slate of Electors to be rejected by the joint session of Congress that tallies the Electoral College Certificates of Certification from each state.”
Exactly right.
Gwinnett County should have been first and foremost.I sure hope the whole republican cabal goes down soon.
This audit will take around two weeks but will not change the outcome of the November elections.
That isn’t the reason. Rattensperger is a lying douchebag.
This isn’t the right county (Ratt picked it intentionally), but if they were to find enough envelopes that do not match voter’s signatures, then it could potentially call the election into question. It doesn’t matter who they voted for.
but if they were to find enough envelopes that do not match voter’s signatures, then it could potentially call the election into question. It doesn’t matter who they voted for.
Isn’t Brad Raffensperger the same guy who decided to become a Democrat today ?
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“MO BROOKS ALABAMA REPUBLICAN:
“I can either sit back and surrender and be a part of the surrender caucus, or I can fight for our country. And that’s what I’m going to do. So on January 6, I’m going to object to the submissions of Electoral College votes from various states that, in my judgment, have such flawed election systems that their vote counts are unworthy of our ratification in the United States Congress. What I need is a United States Senator who will join me. If we have a House member and a senator, then by golly, that forces a House vote and a floor vote on whether to accept this systematically flawed election system or to reject it. I want to reject it so that we can have an honest and fair and accurate election.”
SOME NUMBERS TO CALL
Tom Cotton 202 224 2353
Marco Rubio 202 224 3041
Rick Scott 202 224 5274
Chuck Grassley 202 224 3744
Rand Paul 202 224 4343
John Kennedy 202 224 4263
Josh Hawley 202 224 6154
Steve Daines 202 224 2651
Tim Scott 202 224 6121
Marsha Blackburn 202 224 3344
Ron Johnson 202 224 5323”
I believe so
I wouldn’t trust this whitewash for a second. He said it won’t affect the election outcome, anyway, so the only point of it is obviously CYA.
Equal protection is a farce in Georgia ... and the subpreme court has endorsed the farce.
Need to see a rope and a noose.
It really wouldn't be a novel thing to train up a signature recognition engine to do the matching audit at scale. There are numerous applications that have been at work in real world for years.
It’s nauseating and exhausting. I don’t know what our side thinks is going to come in and save the day at this point without sounding like lunatics. Maybe Superman will swoop in.
“The US Congress isn’t going to nullify anything. Does anyone remember who is the majority?”
Any disputed votes will go to a separate vote by both chambers. Congress will uphold Biden. The Senate may support Trump.
If Pence chooses to use his position of presiding over the joint session to force a contingent election, I think it will work. I don’t think the Democrats have any recourse, though it has been pointed out that they can call for a floor vote to override Pence. However, since he is presiding I believe he could simply ignore this and force it through. All the Democrats could do then is walk out (but the quorum would still hold as long as Pence does not adjourn), or they can appeal to the Supreme Court which will tell them reviewing procedure is not in their purview.
In a contingent election, “Congress” no longer is majority Dem. It is one vote-per-state with a majority being Republican. The states pick the president and the senate picks the vice president which would presumably be Pence.
Perhaps Pelosi could refuse to hold a vote in Congress, which would leave the office vacant. If the senate did likewise, Pelosi would take the position temporarily on January 20. But if the senate, in this case, voted for Pence, he would assume the position of president until the states made their choice. They will only be able to pick between Biden and Trump.
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Georgia secretary of state: My family voted for Trump. He threw us under the bus anyway. Brad Raffensperge - Opinion contributor
“but will not change the outcome of the November elections”.
Then why bother doing the audit? Sounds like his mind is already made up.
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