It's not really that, either, but we know what you mean

See this post for one possible avenue of victory

The alternative is Google maps, and Google is much worse than Apple

If you hover over it, you can see it says "joined recently"

TL;DR: Republicans can object every single Electoral vote slate, each time taking hours of debate in Congress. If this takes more than five days, the counting must stop. At that point, Biden may not have reached 270 yet, so it would go to a contingent election in which Republicans have the advantage

No idea what she means by sending them back, but Pence can presumably choose not to open some of the certificates of election on January 6, putting nobody above 270 Electoral votes and causing a contingent election.

I believe that first, one Senator and one Representative must vote to contest it. But, to actually throw out the electoral votes, a majority in both Houses must then vote to do so.

No, but we do need a majority in both houses to actually effectuate it

So, you definitely could be right, but I think that sentence could mean two things:

1. All certificates of the electoral votes shall be opened, presented, and acted upon. The order will be alphabetical.

2. The order in which the certificates shall be opened, presented, and acted upon is alphabetical.

If number 1, you are right. If 2, that does not preclude the President of the Senate from choosing not to open some.

Either way, I am curious, if Pence chose not to open some, what recourse Congress would have. Maybe they would sue

It seems that the VP can choose whether or not to open any particular envelope, right?

Yes, that is absolutely right

It changes the Electoral votes such that each Elector has one vote for President and one for Vice President, rather than two indistinguishable ones. It does NOT change anything related to the counting of the votes.

You are correct, but that has no bearing on Pence's ability to open and count the Electoral votes.

The Twelve Amendment simply made it so that each Elector had separate votes for President and Vice President

Here is the original post and here is a section of a Wikipedia article about Georgia's defective certificate

Actually, both you and the article are correct. From Wikipedia: "When the electoral ballots were opened and counted on February 11, 1801, it turned out that the certificate of election from Georgia was defective: while it was clear that the electors had cast their votes for Jefferson and Burr, the certificate did not take the constitutionally mandated form of a 'List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each'. Vice President Jefferson, who was counting the votes in his role as President of the Senate, immediately counted the votes from Georgia as votes for Jefferson and Burr, and no objections were raised."

HOWEVER, after he counted all those voted, he and Burr were tied (at that point, first place was President and second place was Vice President). So, there was a contingent election to decide the President after that, with Jefferson tying Burr for the first thirty-five times until Hamilton convinced some Federalists to switch their votes to Jefferson.

TL;DR: The article is correct that the President of the Senate chooses which votes to cast. Jefferson chose to open and count Georgia's certificate, but that left a tie between him and Burr, leading to a contingent election.

Actually, both you and the article are correct. From Wikipedia: "When the electoral ballots were opened and counted on February 11, 1801, it turned out that the certificate of election from Georgia was defective: while it was clear that the electors had cast their votes for Jefferson and Burr, the certificate did not take the constitutionally mandated form of a 'List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each'. Vice President Jefferson, who was counting the votes in his role as President of the Senate, immediately counted the votes from Georgia as votes for Jefferson and Burr, and no objections were raised."

HOWEVER, after he counted all those voted, he and Burr were tied (at that point, first place was President and second place was Vice President). So, there was a contingent election to decide the President after that, with Jefferson tying Burr for the first thirty-five times until Hamilton convinced some Federalists to switch their votes to Jefferson.

TL;DR: The article is correct that the President of the Senate chooses which votes to cast. Jefferson chose to open and count Georgia's certificate, but that left a tie between him and Burr, leading to a contingent election.

I found this on my camera roll from last year, so not OC

Are you saying that they're secretly Jews? They would need a whole fake name and backstory

There are actually no Jewish Republican Senators, and there are only two Jewish Republican House members

That is definitely what it looks like, though if he wanted to give up, he would have done so, and he didn't, so there must be something

I'm sure Trump understands how to win and knows that there are better options

A funny reply tweet:

If you call it something cool, like Trump Law, I'm totally for it. Just saying.

I believe that the President can simply nominate any of them to be Chief Justice, but it has to be approved by the Senate, so it's easier to just make the newly appointed justice Chief Justice so that there is just one hearing instead of two

Looks like Biden's lead is down to 69,341 from what I think was 79,000

The only time I really ever use it is if I want to download something from a site I've never heard of and want to make sure it won't give me a virus.

But, if a site gets bad enough reviews, and somebody with the browser extension tries to visit it, it will pop up with a warning that the site may be malicious. So, we don't want that