The evidence presented to state legislatures in SEVEN different states prompted them to file alternate electors.
Forget all else. The fact that whatever evidence or whatever happened led to SEVEN states submitting alternate electors is historically HUGE.
The fact that, prior to the organized attack on the capitol, some 36 senators and well over a hundred house reps had signed on to object to the seating of the electors, is historically huge.
Even having ONE senator sign on to an objection is historic and extremely rare.
It's common that house members object for posterity for whatever reason looks good for the camera. Happens every election cycle. The threshold necessary for a Senator to sign on is HUGE, and it was smashed with dozens of signatories this cycle.
Elections with no evidence of fraud does not have dozens of Senators objecting.
See, this is the problem. You have created a completely alternative reality. In fact not a single state, not one, presented alternate sets of electors.
If you bothered to listen to the Congressional certification of the EC votes you would have heard Pence going over the submitted slates of electors for every single state. And, in every case, Pence follows the same procedure which includes stating that there is only one set of electors. Take a look at the proceedings here (https://youtu.be/KzWS7gJX5Z8) and you can start at 15:04 when they go over Arizona and explicitly state there was only one slate of electors
The legislatures in many states submitted the alternate electors so they may be counted if the 2-hour debate had lead to a successful vote to count those electors instead. And my humble point was that 2020 had an unprecedented amount of such objections, and with the support of nearly 1/3 of the Senators, it's truly a contested election of historically unprecedented proportions.
You are confusing the objections by Congress members (Representatives and Senators) which of course did happen with alternate sets of electors, which did not. Every state sent one, and only one, set of electors. There were no alternate sets of electors. The link you provide is misleading. Those “electors’ were not certified by any state and carried no legal authority which is why they were never even considered by Congress
And the 2 hour debate was not about choosing between two sets of electors. It was about objecting to the single set of electors presented by the states where there were objections (Arizona and PA).
The evidence presented to state legislatures in SEVEN different states prompted them to file alternate electors.
Forget all else. The fact that whatever evidence or whatever happened led to SEVEN states submitting alternate electors is historically HUGE.
The fact that, prior to the organized attack on the capitol, some 36 senators and well over a hundred house reps had signed on to object to the seating of the electors, is historically huge.
Even having ONE senator sign on to an objection is historic and extremely rare.
It's common that house members object for posterity for whatever reason looks good for the camera. Happens every election cycle. The threshold necessary for a Senator to sign on is HUGE, and it was smashed with dozens of signatories this cycle.
Elections with no evidence of fraud does not have dozens of Senators objecting.
See, this is the problem. You have created a completely alternative reality. In fact not a single state, not one, presented alternate sets of electors.
If you bothered to listen to the Congressional certification of the EC votes you would have heard Pence going over the submitted slates of electors for every single state. And, in every case, Pence follows the same procedure which includes stating that there is only one set of electors. Take a look at the proceedings here (https://youtu.be/KzWS7gJX5Z8) and you can start at 15:04 when they go over Arizona and explicitly state there was only one slate of electors
See, this is the problem. You take the fact that the objections did not prevail as evidence that they did not occur.
https://amgreatness.com/2020/12/14/republican-electors-in-7-contested-states-cast-conditional-votes-for-president-trump-gop-electors-in-michigan-blocked/
The legislatures in many states submitted the alternate electors so they may be counted if the 2-hour debate had lead to a successful vote to count those electors instead. And my humble point was that 2020 had an unprecedented amount of such objections, and with the support of nearly 1/3 of the Senators, it's truly a contested election of historically unprecedented proportions.
You are confusing the objections by Congress members (Representatives and Senators) which of course did happen with alternate sets of electors, which did not. Every state sent one, and only one, set of electors. There were no alternate sets of electors. The link you provide is misleading. Those “electors’ were not certified by any state and carried no legal authority which is why they were never even considered by Congress
And the 2 hour debate was not about choosing between two sets of electors. It was about objecting to the single set of electors presented by the states where there were objections (Arizona and PA).