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posted ago by Sum_devil ago by Sum_devil +18 / -0

So this video I saw, the guy was talking about how if neither candidate decides to concede, that it goes to the house. In which case, each state gets one vote and they decide which person gets transferred in. And that republicans control more states, not necessarily seats, in the house. Is this correct? It would mean that republicans would vote in Trump, correct?

He says that this is why Hillary told Biden not to concede under any circumstances. In order to make the election illegitimate and make the House vote Trump so that they could claim Trump is an asshole who steals elections?

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hloblart 2 points ago +2 / -0

Electors of the Electoral College(Which chooses the president, and are chosen by or based on rules set by the state legislatures) give approximately zero rats asses about concessions.

If the Electoral College ties, then it goes to the House which votes by state delegation(Each state gets the same weight regardless of population, I believe).

If that ties, the Senate decides.

If that ties, the VP(Mike Pence) decides between the people the Senate tied over.

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hloblart 1 point ago +1 / -0

And yes, when I added it up a while back, we had slightly more state delegations, though some were tied. I have no idea what happens if a state delegation ties, they may deadlock and not get a vote. The is also a chance of RINO backstabbery, just look at Georgia's governor, or Romney.

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Nannerbadnanner 2 points ago +2 / -0

Concession really means nothing in the grand scheme of things.

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OrangeLivesMatterCA 2 points ago +2 / -0

Nah, Trump has many more paths then people think for some dumb ass reason. He won on election day, he wins when you remove all the fraudulent ballots, if it goes to the courts he wins, if it goes to the supreme courts he wins, etc. Also if they have plenty of evidence they canjust share it to the world, and arrest them for treason, etc.

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MadRussian 2 points ago +2 / -0

Concession is a formality.

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Smubbs 2 points ago +2 / -0

The candidate conceding doesn’t decide the election. The electoral college voting after the states certifying their votes does

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ronnietherocket 2 points ago +2 / -0

Legally in the US, the deciding factor is the electoral college vote. If the electors fail to pick someone, then it falls to the House to pick the president by voting by state. The Senate then picks the VP voting individually.

Except for their willingness to fight out lawsuits, the candidates conceding does not make a difference.

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nuhbin 2 points ago +2 / -0

no one has to concede ever, it's not really a part of the process

states certify, states elect electors, electoral college meets to vote, etc

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Sum_devil [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

That's what he says. He says it's just customary to keep the peace sort of. Basically it's like two kings fighting for a throne and if neither sides armies are satisfied with the election because of fraud or whatever, that the election can get tossed out completely and the votes don't matter anymore. And that the house can then vote on who becomes president. Is that correct?

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GrizzlyHash 1 point ago +1 / -0

From what I understand, it goes by state delegates. Whichever party has more states is the winner. In this case Trump won more states, so he would be re-elected.

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libertyvsdeath 1 point ago +1 / -0

If that were the case why would the electoral college even exist. No one would concede if the House were on their side and voting would be (even more) pointless.

AFAIK conceding is a formality. The House voting occurs in the case of a tie in the electoral college.

Hillary's suggestion was that Biden not concede on Nov 3 specifically. She knew they might need to wait for vans of ballots. Which they did. Her remarks in my opinion were meaningless as everyone knew the deadlines were extended for mail-in ballots so neither one should have conceded until the magical mail-ins all shook out.

edit: On further study I find multiple accounts of Hillary's remarks actually, and I'm not about to sit through her witch voice to see whether she said to not concede at all or just not on Nov 3. But either way I think she's referring to the fact that dems will cough up however many fake votes he needs. Which happened, for now.