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: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election_in_Hawaii > > 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 > > > 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. >> >> 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. > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
