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AkFemDem

(1,836 posts)
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 02:08 PM Dec 2020

They've assembled a fantasy elector team

🤦🏻?♀️ They just love to drag out their humiliation and loss, don’t they? This has 0% chance of success, a democratic Congress will not choose fake electors over the real ones.

“ Stephen Miller said “as we speak, an alternate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote,” and those votes will be sent to Congress—the latest effort by the Trump campaign to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election, which was won by President-elect Joe Biden.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2020/12/14/on-fox-news-stephen-miller-says-an-alternate-set-of-electors-will-certify-trump-as-winner/?sh=82c7082711a7

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AkFemDem

(1,836 posts)
1. Picture this-
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 02:10 PM
Dec 2020

Jury finds serial killer guilty of murder. Serial killer’s attorney explains to judge, “We actually seated our own alternate jury and they found my client not guilty, so we are going to go with their results instead okay?”

😅

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
4. You have to wonder the mental capacity of these republicans . . .
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 02:17 PM
Dec 2020

Over the years I saw the less and less of brain power regarding republicans and my gawd oh how it has come full circle. Same with their cult.

RockRaven

(15,020 posts)
9. I think that more than anything it speaks to the GrOPers' assessment of their voters and donors'
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 02:25 PM
Dec 2020

brain power. Their beautiful bigly brain power.

Most of these con men know their are full of shit, and are counting on their followers to be utter morons. If they believed their followers were savvier, they would put more effort into it. But they don't. They hold their own followers in such contempt that they don't even bother coming up with less pathetic lies and stunts.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. Joke's on you, Stephen!
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 02:19 PM
Dec 2020

I've already organized the backyard squirrels into an alternate alternate electoral college. Except for Scraggles, who voted for "Dug" from "Up" for some reason, it was a landslide for Biden-Harris. Pwned!

FreepFryer

(7,077 posts)
10. Seems illegalish. Like waaaaaaaay more than Amicus curae signings n stuff
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 02:29 PM
Dec 2020

Those mischievous cuddle bugs gonna get themselves locked up for sedition

Thekaspervote

(32,803 posts)
13. It has a 2 fold purpose. 1. Magats run to donate 2. He can claim they sent the only valid set of
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 02:39 PM
Dec 2020

Electors and they were illegally denied, casting the loser label away from him

MineralMan

(146,337 posts)
17. There is only one Electoral College, and only one set of votes.
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 02:53 PM
Dec 2020

I can send something to Congress, and so can anybody else. However, it will not be the Electoral College vote. That will be presented to Congress by VP Pence in January. It will also be submitted to the National Archives. Any other so-called Electoral College vote is bogus and will not be accepted in place of the real one.

Since there are multiple copies of the official vote from all 50 states and DC, there is no way VP Pence could alter it, either.

To Hell with Stephen Miller!

andym

(5,445 posts)
18. Alternate slates of electors? See their playbook: Tilden Vs Hayes
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 03:05 PM
Dec 2020

Democrat Tilden, the NY governor, won a majority of the vote (50.9%) and seemed to win the electoral college until charges of fraudulent elections in 4 contested states. GOP controlled the SC and Senate while the Democrats controlled the House-- just like today. There were two slates of electors from each of the contested states, each certified by different officials. An electoral commission eventually awarded all of the disputed states to Hayes making him the winner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1876_United_States_presidential_election

The difference is that there wasn't real fraud this time, so there is NO justification as well as the reforms from the Electoral Count Act in 1887. I'm pretty sure they will try to dispute this on January 6 to try to cheat their way in. They need their alternate slates of electors should the disputes ever get that far. But they won't, thanks to greater clarity in the law.

Midnight Writer

(21,816 posts)
19. They are leading their followers step by step to even crazier actions.
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 04:19 PM
Dec 2020

This is part of the grooming of America.

Making insanity the norm.

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