On Monday, members of the Electoral College will gather throughout the day in their respective states to cast their official ballots for president. Most states will offer livestreams to watch the proceedings, which will take place at locations chosen by state legislatures – typically the state’s capitol. Exceptions include Delaware – whose electors will meet in a gym, and Nevada – which will be the only state to hold its meeting virtually this year, according to the New York Times.
Electors will use paper ballots to cast their votes for president and vice president.
And while 33 states require their electors to choose whoever won the state’s popular vote, 17 other states don’t “bind” their electors – who can vote for whomever they choose. If they cast a vote for another candidate than the one which won the state, they are considered ‘faithless electors.’ In 2016, two faithless electors didn’t vote for Trump, while five faithless electors didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton. The seven electors were from Hawaii, Texas and Washington State.
Electors typically have a close relationship with the candidates or politicians in their states. For example, in 2016 Democratic activist Ed Buck – a deep-pocketed political donor since charged with three counts of battery after multiple drugged black men were found dead in his apartment – was selected for the electoral college, likely by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), his district’s congressman who accepted political donations from the accused bundler.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s daughter was also a California elector in 2016.
What happens after the electors meet?
The votes are officially counted in Congress during a joint session held in the House chamber on Jan. 6, with Vice President Mike Pence presiding over the affair. Pence will open the certificates, organized in alphabetical order by state, and present them to four “tellers” – two from the Senate and two from the House, who count the votes. Once Joe Biden receives at least 270 votes, as is expected to be the case, Pence will announce the result. The session cannot end until the count is complete and publicly declared, at which point the election is officially decided.
Can members of Congress block the process?
Once the result is read on January 6, members of Congress will have one opportunity to lodge complaints, which must be made in writing and signed by at least one Senator and one member of the House. The objection would then be debated by each chamber separately, with each member of Congress allowed five minutes to speak. The debate has a hard stop after two hours, after which each body will vote on whether to reject the state’s results, according to the Times.
The Times also notes that some Trump allies are “already planning objections,” which should “make for good political theater” but would be unlikely to change the outcome of the election.
Does this end Trump and his allies’ fight to challenge the election?
According to Trump Campaign attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, “The only fixed day in the U.S. Constitution is the inauguration of the President on January 20 at noon,” suggesting that they will exhaust every legal option to overturn the results based on accusations of widespread fraud across several key states.
That said, Ellis had previously called Jan. 6, vote counting day, a date of “ultimate significance.”
That said, last month Trump told reporters that if Biden is elected by the Electoral College, Trump would leave office.
“Certainly I will, and you know that,” he said, adding “I will and, you know that,” though he also said “It’s going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud.”
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It doesn’t matter what they do from this point on, unless the election is overturned for fraud, the criminals can go through all the formalities and pretense, all the pomp and circumstance and great ballyhoos of ‘we won’ bullshit, but it will still be theft on a grand scale and a massive fraud and takeover of the government.
Illegitimate is illegitimate and fraud is fraud. If a person has to cheat to get where they want to be then where they want to be is fraudulent by it’s very nature.
I am sitting back, letting the shit roll and the finality of the crime play itself out. I am john Galt. I am Tyler Durden….
I Am Jack’s Complete Lack Of Surprise.
I am a monkey wrench and a wooden shoe.
Nothing goes with the wooden shoe and wrench like strategically placed post hole cement. A baggie of that in your purse can bring the plumbing in certain places to a standstill.
The Dems and Repukes have both done that at voting locations and various conventions.
The last guy who was obviously installed via ballot box stuffing got his head blown off in Dallas, most likely for crossing the deep state. So there’s that. Most of the major western countries have recently been headed by childless women – Theresa May, Frau Merkel, Francois Macron. So Kamala Harris seems to be in the cards. Her (((husband))) can relay orders directly to her.
Actually, from some accounts, the ones that JFK (and his brother, RFK) crossed were israel and the jews. JFK had caught on to the spying that israelis and other jews were doing on the US — especially on their theft of both nuclear weapon design and the theft of fissionable materials to create those weapons — and their use of that information and those materials in their own nuclear weapons program in israel. RFK, of course, had also tried to get the various pro-zionist/israeli PACs to register as foreign agents under the 1938 law enacted for that purpose — and they not only refused, but they have not complied with that law to this day.
Why do you always post the same stupid shit ?
Gatsby: It is because “22 Mag AKA Anonymous” is mentally ill.
The truth doesn’t change much.
In fact it doesn’t change at all.
What we have now is clear notification that we live in a world WROL.
Criminals have never been restrained by the law and now those in power entrusted to uphold the laws clearly do not.
The self-restraint that limited the average “law abiding citizen” will soon be gone.
For some thoughts on possibilities regarding the Electoral College and outcomes … today’s The Feral Irishman has a post … a very interesting read … and, from what I recall of Constitutional Law class in law school in the mid-’70s, a Constitutional possibility.
Whether or not members of our chicken-shit Congress (especially the non-Democrats) will actually stand up and follow their Oath of Office (‘ …I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same … ‘ — notice that their oath is to the Constitution — not to their party or to their constituents)
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2020/12/are-there-any-scholars-of-constitution.html
One “faithless” elector voted for Ron Paul in 2016. Hero!
EXCLUSIVE Breaking News !!! Report Backs Allegations of Fraud Against Dominion Voting Systems!
https://voxday.blogspot.com/2020/12/forensics-report-antrim-county-mi.html#comment-form
The forensics report of the Dominion voting machine for Antrim County, Michigan has been released. The news is worse for Biden than we had expected.
https://voxday.blogspot.com/2020/12/forensics-report-antrim-county-mi.html#comment-form
Hmmmm…
https://www.wtae.com/article/pennsylvanias-20-electors-set-to-cast-their-votes-today/34959301#
Now we’ll see the government switch from churning out excuses for not doing anything that the people who voted for Trump wanted, to churning out excuses for not doing anything that the people who voted for Biden want.
And right on time, it’s the village idiot. 22 winmemetard.
Trump is out.
Let the genuine postmortems begin!
