USC 12 only applies when certified electoral votes have not been received.
All of the states have certified their votes and surely sent them.
Whether they're perceived to be fraudulent or not is a separate question, and that's where the objections come in. But without the House and Senate agreeing on those objections, they become meaningless.
Here’s the problem: we have never had an exact situation like this before. So, it would be breaking new ground.
That said, it seems like every road leads through Pence.
He may not be the final decider as some have said, but he can definitely throw a wrench in the works by choosing to not accept certain states “until fraud is corrected.”
If he turns around and says “Sorry PA/WI/MI/GA - your votes are a wash because you’re terrible” then no one has 270. That would trigger the 1 vote per state mechanism in the Constitution.
But the law has a method for objecting to fraudulently certified votes.
And it requires the Senate to vote and the House to vote on those objections.
If they don't agree, the certified votes stand as submitted.
Pence doesn't have any choice in the matter, as the law is written.
Our only hope is if Democrats in the House, for some reason, go along with accepting a rejection.
I would agree. law also prohibits cheating, but here we are
USC 12 only applies when certified electoral votes have not been received. All of the states have certified their votes and surely sent them.
Whether they're perceived to be fraudulent or not is a separate question, and that's where the objections come in. But without the House and Senate agreeing on those objections, they become meaningless.
I wish it didn't say this, but it does.
Here’s the problem: we have never had an exact situation like this before. So, it would be breaking new ground.
That said, it seems like every road leads through Pence. He may not be the final decider as some have said, but he can definitely throw a wrench in the works by choosing to not accept certain states “until fraud is corrected.”
If he turns around and says “Sorry PA/WI/MI/GA - your votes are a wash because you’re terrible” then no one has 270. That would trigger the 1 vote per state mechanism in the Constitution.
But the law has a method for objecting to fraudulently certified votes. And it requires the Senate to vote and the House to vote on those objections. If they don't agree, the certified votes stand as submitted.
Pence doesn't have any choice in the matter, as the law is written.
Our only hope is if Democrats in the House, for some reason, go along with accepting a rejection.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/15
Interesting.
Well we need to keep digging at the Fraud. at this point it is undeniable. But they are Working at that as hard as possible.