[FRIAM] political question

[Steve Smith]

With all of the crazed, disturbing damage the Donald has done to the
Republican Party, I'm surprised *he* hasn't been fretting about
faithless electors in the states he "won" (the old fashioned way, with
popular vote).   I can just imagine he and Rudy and the other whacks
pulling off one of their stunts to overturn one of the swing states he
lost, only to have one of the other states' electors go rogue on him... 
maybe a fat one like TX or FL?    me and my alternate universes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector

On 12/22/20 5:36 PM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
> As always, just because it's in black and white, don't make it true. But there is this:
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>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election_in_Hawaii
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> Speaking of which, if you have extra cash, Wikipedia is an excellent resource for end of year donations. I can't speak to whatever form Congressional objection might take. I've heard that it's pretty much dead on arrival: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/22/trump-election-result-overturning-effort-republicans
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> On 12/22/20 3:58 PM, Prof David West wrote:
>> I came across a short article recently about slates of electors. It seemed to say that Congress must certify/accept the results of the electoral college vote and, in some fashion could overturn that vote by accepting a different slate of electors. To that end, seven states have sent Congress two slates of electors, one Democratic and voting for Biden, the other republican and voting for Trump. Congress, it is asserted, has the power to disqualify one set of electors and replace them with the other, thereby giving Trump the electoral college victory despite what happened a few days ago.
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>> Further, there is supposedly a precedent. Hawaii was won by Nixon and a set of electors sent to the college to vote accordingly. Democrats in state government set an alternative set of electors to Congress with commitment to vote Kennedy and this second set prevailed in Congress and so Kennedy got Hawaii's electoral college votes.
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