Calls mount to challenge congressional ratification of electoral college vote Friday Jan 6
Call your congress critters and ask them to object to ratification of the Electoral College vote on Friday!
At Least 50 Trump Electors Were Illegitimately Seated as Electoral College Members
More evidence surfaces as calls mount to challenge congressional ratification of Electoral College vote.
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
January 4, 2017
"More than 50 Electoral College members who voted for Donald Trump were ineligible to serve as presisential electors because they did not live in the congressional district they represented or they held elective office in states legally barring dual officeholders.
That stunning finding is among the conclusions of an extensive 1,000-plus page legal briefing prepared by a bipartisan nationwide legal team for members of Congress who are being urged to object to certifying the 2016 Electoral College results on Friday.
“We have reason to believe that there are at least 50 electoral votes that were not regularly given or not lawfully certified (16 Congressional District violations and 34 Dual Office-Holder violations,” the executive summary of their “Electoral Vote Objection Packet” said. “The number could be over a hundred. We urge you to prepare written objections for January 6.”
A joint congressional session is scheduled to ratify the 2016 Electoral College vote on Friday. While there has been calls to challenge that certification, including one women-led effortsaying Trump would not have won without suppressing Black and Brown voters, the analysis that scores of Trump electors were improperly seated—and the additional finding that most states won by Trump improperly filed their Electoral College “Certificates of Vote” with Congress—is unprecedented.
“The compiling of the laws and evidence in this Electoral Vote Objection Package was completed by a national team of roughly 15 pro bono attorneys, law students, and legal assistants who represent no client or entity,” their summary said. “We are non-partisan—Democrat, Republican, and Independent. We live in different parts of the country, urban and rural, Red states and Blue states.”
It remains to be seen if Trump’s Electoral College certification will be challenged. The Electoral College’s results have only been challenged twice since 1877. The most recent was in 2005, when an objection to Ohio’s Electoral College votes was filed by Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, D-OH, and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-CA. While that effort did not stop President George W. Bush's reelection, it did force both chambers of Congress to each debate for two hours before the Electoral College vote was ratified. Tubbs-Jones and Boxer used the podium to rail against GOP efforts to suppress the vote and disqualify ballots—typically in communities of color."
More: http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/least-50-trump-electors-were-illegitimately-seated-electoral-college-members
We did this in 2005. If one senator and one rep challenges the results of the electoral college vote, congress adjourns to their respective houses and debates for two hours and C-span one and two cover it, and it gets a lot of media attention. Please call your congress people and ask them to object to the Electoral College vote on Friday!
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