A little more on the "alternate electors" bit.
The problem is our laws assume that everyone will protect democracy. Pence will probably have received "alternate electoral votes" for Trump in the battleground states. All anyone has to do is send those votes to him via registered mail.The electors shall dispose of the certificates so made by them and the lists attached thereto in the following manner:
First. They shall forthwith forward by registered mail one of the same to the President of the Senate at the seat of government.
Anyone can make "certificates" claiming to contain electoral votes and the Republicans have done this. This means that Mike Pence will be in possession of two sets of conflicting "electoral vote certificates."
The Republican "certificates" have no legal standing. This is what the Gohmert suit I talked about in the previous post is trying to give them.
But in theory, Pence could choose to ONLY open the envelopes containing the Republican "alternate electoral certificates."
I have no idea what would happen if he did this.
Congress could choose to ignore those certificates but how do you force Pence to open the other envelopes? If the certificates are just rejected and not replaced with Biden votes, the election might go to the House of Representatives and if it does, Trump wins.
Never mind. paragraph 15 of 3 US Code Chapter 1 says:
all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes, which certificates and papers shall be opened
I suppose a quick lawsuit while Pelosi refusing to hold a vote would work. What's going to happen if the Republicans ever control both the House and Senate?
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