Competing Slates of Electors Have Happened Before
American Spectator,
by
Deroy Murdock
Original Article
Posted By: Christopher L,
9/12/2023 11:40:33 AM
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her leftist comrades moan about “Donald Trump’s fake-electors scheme” as if it were a cutting-edge conspiracy concocted at his Mar-a-Lago compound in the wee small hours of the morning. In fact, “fake electors” are neither new nor nefarious. And they are not fake, either.
Believe it or not, a Congressional Research Service paper discusses how to proceed when a state sends to Washington two separate slates of presidential electors — as has happened in the past!
CRS spelled this out on December 8, 2020 in a 13-page document titled “Counting Electoral Votes:
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Venturer 9/12/2023 12:08:56 PM (No. 1554592)
This woman is an idiot thinking she will promote herself into a big job at some point in time.
How can she be after Trump for denying an election when Stacey Abrams from her State did the same thing. Only one difference Abrams is a black democrat and Trump is a white republican.
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Starboard_side 9/12/2023 12:25:42 PM (No. 1554597)
Believe I recall one state denied the recount because they didn't have a set of alternative electors in-place.
My go-to for most things now, if the role was reversed would the media be not trying their utmost to explain things, provide the historical references, etc..?
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Birddog 9/12/2023 2:17:13 PM (No. 1554653)
Hawaii "disallowed" 108 ballots for Nixon, and "Found" 68 ballots for Kennedy.
Keep also in mind that it was the VERY FIRST Presidential election Hawaii participated in.
One of the Key Points in this story is that, Alternative counts must be determined to be the one MOST closely following a States Election Laws/Rules, and if still sent to Congress, "First, between a state’s two competing slates of electors, Congress must count the one most consistent with that state’s laws on post-election challenges".
Under many states pre-existing election Rules and Laws, things were done in 2020 that had NEVER been done before, nor even contemplated by the Legislatures, some HAD been contemplated by state legislatures and not approved. Since then over a dozen State Legislatures have passed Laws that forbid such actions from every taking place in the future..."Affirming/Confirming that those actions were in fact UnLawful".
In Wisc. both the State Supreme Court and the Legislature declared it's election was unlawful, illegal...and Void
In Ga. while much is currently being made of Trumps statements about "finding Votes", in the same call he was also asking for a "Finding" about the validity of the election itself under Georgia Law, If faithfully interpreted and followed, it was/is a "Failed Election". Requiring either a NEW election, or an election held in the Legislature, the outcome determined only by votes of the Elected Representatives within it.
PS The 1876 electoral kerfuffel, was 5 States sending alternative slates, if I recall several states sent more than simply two alternative slates. After days of voting and arguing, over which to accept...Dems demanded and received a promise to "Remove all troops from the Reconstruction South, abandon all election rights enforcement's there, and grant Dems the Right to implement Jim Crow" It ended with the Repub winning the Presidency, but almost 100 years of lost voting rights for Blacks in the South, as well as the loss of ALL Republican seats there, in legislatures, as well as Congress, most of those seats held by Black Republicans. It also led to the rise of the Klan, cross burnings, lynchings, riots, sunset laws, land seizures, church burnings.
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There is a link in the article to the 13 page CRS report. It's an easy read and very informative.