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bullimiami

(13,076 posts)
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 09:29 AM Nov 2020

Legislatures picking. Is there a real analysis of the details?

They would need to get Biden’s electors under 270?
Is the majority still 270 if states aren’t included?
Like rejected for having 2 slates?

Next in which states could this even be possible?
Would it have to pass both houses and be signed off by governor? Like a law?

Lastly are there any democratic states that could retaliate?

It’s one thing to think it up. It’s another to have a plan that can succeed.

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hlthe2b

(102,119 posts)
2. For gawd's sakes read this and stop fomenting hysteria... PLEASE
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 09:40 AM
Nov 2020

This has been addressed multiple times. The state laws that cover selection of electors CAN NOT
be changed post-election. This is just stirring up unnecessary hysteria.

Please Read this word for word (from the National Task Force on Election Crises from among our best legal minds) and then decide if you want to continue in this vein:

Read our @ElectionTask legal primer here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e70e52c7c72720ed714313f/t/5f625c790cef066e940ea42d/1600281722253/State_Legislature_Paper.pdf


hlthe2b

(102,119 posts)
5. I will not when this has been discussed THOROUGHLY dozens of times in posts and you are
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 10:27 AM
Nov 2020

(however inadvertently) spreading RW memes. I WILL NOT. Educate yourself!

skip fox

(19,356 posts)
7. It's not hysteria to listen to what Mark Levin and, now, Kenneth Starr are saying.
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 10:31 AM
Nov 2020

We should be aware of it.

They probably won't be able to pull it off, but with their lawlessness and moronic base, at the least they might further split the country and at the most twist the law such that they might succeed.

Let's be aware of how much RW talk focuses on this "remedy."

hlthe2b

(102,119 posts)
9. I & others already provided this information to you multiple times. EDUCATE YOURSELF
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 10:32 AM
Nov 2020

and stop propagating RW hysteria/memes. I know you know BETTER than to do so, as you already have posted an identical thread on this with near identical responses. .

NCDem47

(2,248 posts)
3. I admit. It took me a while to come off the ledge on this.
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 09:54 AM
Nov 2020

It will take continual education to those who are hearing it for the first time or who haven't found definitive sources to debunk it.

I'm putting my faith in those who say not worry about it. We're just BURNED by trail of instances where folks said "It can't happen here" - and it did.

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