PA Senate Majority Leader Starts to Backtrack on EVs Going to Popular Vote Winner

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

I think it’s happening, and it’s terrifying.

With that said, I think the end result is the electoral college not being ratified and Acing President Pelosi, followed swiftly by President Biden, being sworn in ok January 21st, but the fact they are willing to entertain this stuff should be criminal it and if itself.

The sentence for any elected official who is party to an attempt to overturn an election should start at life in prison. That should be the absolute minimum.

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[durablend]

1. Told you Republican "word" doesn't mean shit

[Just_Vote_Dem]

2. More debunked BS n/t

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

6. Show me where him adding the "in normal circumstances" caveat has been debunked

?

[Alhena]

7. Please post the debunking link- seems like a well-researched article to me

[Just_Vote_Dem]

11. Here

https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/electors

Who selects the electors?

Choosing each State's electors is a two-part process. First, the political parties in each State choose slates of potential electors sometime before the general election. Second, during the general election, the voters in each State select their State's electors by casting their ballots.

Now, can you please show me where the Georgia legislature will choose the electors, rather than the Democratic and Republican parties, as outlined in the US Constitution?

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. We just need to assure them civil war is a certainty if they do this.

[David__77]

4. I don't see how there won't be a coup attempt of some sort.

I think that a pro-democracy, anti-coup alliance/mobilization is definitely called for. The stakes must be made very high, that a coup will lead to the complete and total destruction of the US economically and politically.

[Mike 03]

8. THIS:

a coup will lead to the complete and total destruction of the US economically and politically

[Dem2]

5. Not going to entertain rumors

and fear mongering.

[bdamomma]

20. Fear and lies

to the bitter end. tRump and his minions are thugs nothing more.

[Alhena]

9. Another point- Dems control the Wisconsin and PA Supreme Courts, which would enforce

the state laws giving the legislators no role in elections.

Yes, SCOTUS could overrule them, but I just don't see there being 5 votes for that even from this court - it would literally be the end of American democracy.

[Mike 03]

10. Who said, "The road to fascism is lined with people telling you that you're

overreacting"?

It's always "farfetched" until afterwards, when people start telling you it was "obvious all along."

[mr_lebowski]

12. This! nt

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

14. + 1 more

[Wednesdays]

13. Electoral collage?

Would it look something like this?


ETA: I agree with the Acing Nancy Pelosi.

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

15. Haha, good spot.

If the GOP got its way it would be an array of swastikas and white robes.

[Drunken Irishman]

16. The PA legislature doesn't pick the electors.

[Roland99]

17. BS. 100% canNOT happen. canNOT change rules/laws AFTER an election has occurred

[2naSalit]

18. It's against the law in PA...

They would have had to select a new process prior to the election as the law states. They would be changing the law after the election which is not allowed and would be contested in court and they would lose.

[greenjar_01]

19. Biden's margin of victory in Pennsylvania expands to nearly 49,000 votes

Trump in danger of falling below 49% of the PA vote.

[TeamPooka]

21. If they do this, the Civil War starts

[lindysalsagal]

22. There's already too much violence in PA. I can't imagine how much damage would be

done. It would make portland look like a test-run.

[gratuitous]

23. "Normal circumstances" meaning when the Republican candidate gets more votes

We really need to break this tacit assumption that only Republicans are allowed to govern, and that any Democratic interregnum is illegitimate, except insofar as Democrats do what Republicans want them to do.