11 Senate Republicans say they will object to Electoral College results Wednesday

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Source: The Hill

Eleven Senate Republicans on Saturday announced that they will object to the Electoral College results Wednesday, when Congress convenes in a joint session to formally count the vote.

GOP Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas), Ron Johnson (Wis.), James Lankford (Okla.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Kennedy (La.), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), and Mike Braun (Ind.), and Senators-elect Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.), Roger Marshall (Kan.), Bill Hagerty (Tenn.), and Tommy Tuberville (Ala.) said in a joint statement that they will object to the election results until there is a 10-day audit.

"Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states," they said. "Once completed, individual states would evaluate the Commission's findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed.

"Accordingly, we intend to vote on Jan. 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not 'regularly given' and 'lawfully certified' (the statutory requisite), unless and until that emergency 10-day audit is completed," they added.




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The GOP brain trust.

[EarlG]

1. These Republicans are ridiculous

There isn't any "dispute." The results have been certified and the electors have voted. There are no "disputed states."

Give it up, sore losers.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

2. So this is how elections will work now...

taking notes and learning to get ready for next time.

[pat_k]

18. We should be ready to react to actual suppression . . .

. . . rendering a state's results unlawful, as in Ohio in 2004. (Or rendered incomplete, and therefore unlawful, by black-robed traitors on SCOTUS, as in Florida in 2000.)

[Ollie Garkie]

3. and for the past 30 years

Lush Rimjob has claimed that the Librul Democrats are the hysterical sore losers. Hmmmm.

[Historic NY]

4. refuseniks

[Zoonart]

5. Who will stop this?

[StatGirl]

9. The House of Representatives

They're just making this stuff up. They can demand an audit all they want, but the law is clear. At best they can demand a 2-hour debate for each of the states that Biden won.

So it's all theater. They're trying to get the cultist vote.

[unblock]

6. The states can't change their minds at this point.

Case closed.

Wtf

[IsItJustMe]

7. Looks like Jan 6 is gonna be a long day.

They will be contesting 5 or 6 states at 2 hours each. Looks like at least a 16 hour day.

[bluestarone]

10. I believe that's their plan.

Show RUMPS base one final show! No biggie, JOE and Kamala show will follow for four years!!!!!!

[pat_k]

15. And to. . .

. . . give the right-wingnut noise machine a "talking point" that will echo for the next four years: "X members of the House and Senate -- an unprecedented number -- objected to the electors from x, y, and z states because those elections were so corrupted by fraud."

They hoped to be able to point to a least one winning lawsuit as their "proof." They hoped to be able to point to at least one state legislature overturning results. Those efforts failed. This is their fallback.

[maddogesq]

21. Just another fundraising stunt to bleed money from the cult.

Hope everyone in the Senate chamber dons masks and face shield as this will be 12+ hours of hot air and spittle.

I believe this is also a way for the wingnuts to promote more voter suppression legislation at the state level. We need to be on gaurd agains this BIG TIME over the next couple years.

[pat_k]

23. Absolutely!

We need more, and more effective, national efforts to end voter suppression tactics. Perhaps the most insidious of which is the under-allocation of resources in urban and AA areas for the sole purpose of creating long lines. Time is money, and lines are the new poll tax. We may laud the people dedicated enough to wait hours, but the fact is that far too many people just can't afford to.

The right to vote means the right to EASILY cast our ballots and have confidence our votes will be correctly counted.

The enemies of free and fair elections are well organized and powerful. We need a massive counter effort. Effective national media and fundraising. On the ground efforts in legislatures. Campaigns to expand universal mail in voting WITHOUT vote suppressing, and utterly unnecessary requirements like witnesses.

Each of us can help by pushing our leaders to act and pushing the organizations we belong to to make battling voter suppression a top priority! We can write letters to the editor condemning voter registration purges and any other tactics at work in our own states. We can awaken patriotic passion for defending our most basic right.

[al bupp]

33. This hits the nail on the proverbial electoral head, so to speak

The phrase, "long lines are the new poll tax", could even fit on a bumper sticker!

[TryLogic]

54. Why isn't voter suppression a form of treason?

[pat_k]

61. Unfortunately, , ,

Too many of the tactics have been deemed legal by right-wing packed courts.

Perhaps one of the most effective tactics is allocating resources in "certain areas" to create long lines. This must be addressed. We need a new voting rights act that, among other things, includes a stiff fine for counties that run their election so badly people have to wait for anything more than an hour. A fine bigger than any "savings" from under-allocating resources. Money is the only incentive enemies of democracy understand.

Even well meaning democrats spend more time lauding the demonstration of determination of those waiting than decrying the fact that perhaps 5% or more confronted with an intolerable line can't, or don't consider their vote important enough, to wait. (Particularly when there is overconfidence in a democratic win, as in 2016 and last year)

Thanks to effective voter suppression, despite the apparently decisive popular vote, we won the electoral college by the thinnest of margins (see excerpt below from the Cook Report). It we don't act, we may fail to overcome the suppression next time.

Joe Biden won the popular vote by 7.1 million (4.5 percentage points), but Donald Trump came within 42,918 votes (Biden's combined margin of victory in Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin) of a 269-269 tie in the Electoral College, which would likely have been resolved in Trump's favor in the House. Trump came within 65,009 votes of winning 270 Electoral votes outright, when including Biden's win in Nebraska's 2nd District.

It's up to us to do whatever we can to inspire passion for the basics -- like truly free and fair elections, anti-racist policies, universal health care, remedies for the dehumanizing distribution of our national wealth, and other changes that would build this country into something we could be truly proud of.

[mwooldri]

52. Not the kind of Carnival Cruz I wanna take... NT

[LuvNewcastle]

8. I'm sure when he was growing up, Trumpy would keep whining

when he didn't get his way. He would whine and cry and hold his breath and mommy and daddy would finally relent and give him whatever he wanted. He grew up thinking that it's everybody else's job to clean up his messes (sometimes quite literally) and everyone has to give him what he wants. The sad thing is that it's always worked for him until just recently.

[2naSalit]

11. Oh, I bet he did far more nefarious bullshit...

Than whine and throw tantrums. I bet he sabotaged the lives of the rest of the family and attempted hostage holding to get his way.

[LuvNewcastle]

13. He definitely sabotaged his brother.

His brother had a problem, they say, bit I don't get the impression that any of the family tried to help the guy. Trumpy just stabbed him in the back whenever Daddy was around and Daddy decided to put Trumpy in charge of everything.

[Talitha]

14. That's exactly what he told Howard Stern.

Howard Stern told a reporter that Dump said he gets everything he wants by whining and complaining until the other guy gives up.

And I'm sure the Repugs have been taking lessons.

[LuvNewcastle]

16. Most people wouldn't want to debase themselves

by acting like that, but people like Trumpy think that taking pride in one's character is a weakness. As long as he gets his gold toilets and such, why should he care if he looks like an ass?

[pat_k]

12. Yeah. Screw the oath.

Unlike Stephanie Tubbs Jones (RIP) and Barbara Boxer standing up on Jan 6, 2005 to object to the Ohio electors appointed pursuant to the unlawfully conducted Ohio election to defend our most basic right, these corrupt people are violating their oath by seeking to toss out legitimately appointed electors (albeit, the electors were appointed pursuant to elections plagued by attempts to suppress votes from urban areas and majority AA areas -- efforts that undoubtedly resulted in undercounting Biden votes).

The electoral college may need to be abolished, but the count of the electors under the electoral count act does serve a purpose: the procedures are a backstop against state elections that utterly fail to afford their residents a free and fair presidential election. Of course, it only works if you assume members of the House and Senate act in accordance with their oath. Our constitutional democracy only works when the people we elect to represent us are reasonable and moral. Tragically, that is not a reality.

In the coming years, it is imperative that we mount a coordinated, well-funded effort to stamp out purges of legitimately registered voters and other intolerable barriers to citizens' right to elections that enable them to cast their ballot easily and have confidence their votes will be correctly counted.

[samsingh]

17. let the GOP traitors expose themselves for the world to see and laugh at us

[Midnight Writer]

24. "Ye shall know them by their works"

[modrepub]

19. How Many "Audit" Do They Need?

Recount audits at the state and county level have been done multiple times in the states they think something is wrong. My state (PA) has paper records for all votes. They just don't like the results.

[treestar]

20. Should audit red states too then

They are being ridiculous.

[monkeyman1]

22. republican brain dead !!!

they can just bend over & kiss their political careers " are officially toast " !

[yaesu]

25. I sent a tweet to a Repuke Rep who is doing the same asking one simple question

When you service Putin, does russia supply the kneepads or do the American taxpayers?

[bucolic_frolic]

26. Just like Trump's taxes

Things under audit never get released, get it?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

27. "Let's just make up bullshit rules until we get our way."

Talk about hypocrisy. If the tables were turned they'd be yelling, "Follow the Constitution!" They should be called out as "seditious senators."

[Septua]

45. That's the problem...

They can say something today, contradict it tomorrow and not be accountable...they essentially say or do whatever best suits the moment.

They try to mask the sedition by saying "the Trump voters think there were irregularities." What they should have been doing was assuring the Trump voters there were no irregularities.....and the simple truth is, Trump lost.

[Evolve Dammit]

28. Legitimate basis for this? NONE. Gavel their asses down and remove if necessary. nt

[Delphinus]

29. I seriously

want to SCREAM!!!!

[mdbl]

30. Those 11 Repugs are morons on parade

They need to start serving their constituents instead of sucking on trump.

[bucolic_frolic]

31. There is no 10-day audit in the Constitution, this is against their oath of office

and it is seditious, self-serving, crooked, and vile.

[Rebl2]

41. Wish

They could be thrown out of office for doing this.

[cstanleytech]

50. What should happen is they should be arrested for sedition which is what this is.

[LiberalFighter]

32. The votes were regularly given as required.

Unless the elector's vote was due to bribery, corruption, mistake or fraud. Or the elector did not vote in accordance with applicable constitutional and statutory requirements.

If the votes were regularly given without those impediments they can't object.

If the votes were not lawfully certified they can object. Except the electoral votes of every state has been duly certified as required by state law.

[Initech]

34. WTF is an audit going to do?

It's just going to prove that Biden won again, these people are fucking nuts.

[Harker]

35. It wasn't long ago that the Senate was viewed as

a thoughtful, deliberate counterweight to the impetuosity of the House.

[TryLogic]

55. I that was before Moscow Mitch

[mountain grammy]

36. Afraid of the proud boys

who threaten to kill all the traitors? Nah, just blind stupid..

I will never spend a dime in their fucking states!

[Goblue50]

37. One more traitor...

Just need one more traitor to make a new “Dirty Dozen”

[TeamPooka]

38. Fascist Role Call!

[TryLogic]

56. Fascist Role Call. I agree.

[marble falls]

39. Fuck 'em.

[elleng]

40. ever to be known as . . .

GOP Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas), Ron Johnson (Wis.), James Lankford (Okla.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Kennedy (La.), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) and Mike Braun (Ind.) and Sens.-elect Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.), Roger Marshall (Kan.), Bill Hagerty (Tenn.) and Tommy Tuberville (Ala.) said in a joint statement that they will vote against accepting the election results until there is a 10-day audit.

[Yavin4]

42. And we should "reach across the aisle and work with them" because....? n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

48. We should reach across the aisle and slap their collective faces

[iluvtennis]

43. Doesn't mean shit. A11 50 states certified the EC votes on December 9th. The congress' process

is nothing but figure head gesture. It's the states certifications that count, not what the congress does.

[mahina]

44. Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame!

They should be pelted with shoes everywhere they go for the rest of their days.

Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame!
Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame!
Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame!

[apnu]

46. Republicans: 'Come on people! These goal posts won't move themselves!'

[BlueIdaho]

47. So the vote will be 89 to 11?

Big fucking deal.

[Polybius]

51. What if it was 51-49?

It obviously won’t be, but what if it was?

[BlueIdaho]

57. Then they would be reporting more than 11 traitors. nt.

[appmanga]

49. Make no mistake...

...this is yet another step to normalizing anti-American democracy acts by a party that is desperate to stay in power by any means necessary. These people have no fear of paying any price for turning their backs on democratic principles. In fact, they expect to be rewarded. Those of us who believe in American democracy have to think long and hard, and then act, on what it's going to take to preserve our system because it hasn't been credibly threatened in such a major way since the Civil War.

[LudwigPastorius]

53. I wonder what Putin will do with Trump now that his work is done.

Will it be the cyanide gas gun, that makes it look like a heart attack?

[cstanleytech]

58. Fine lets go with the popular vote then!!! Oh, wait I forgot Trump lost that both in 2016 and 2020.

[TexasBushwhacker]

59. Interesting that only Tennessee has both senators

signing up for this seditious charade.

[Bar5tons]

60. electoral college

If the republicans are saying that they want the popular vote to elect the president instead of electoral votes, I'm fine with that. lol
If we lose our democracy it will be because of the republicans. The US congress, those are state elections, 99% of congress, we don't get to vote on them. I wish we did. lol
I understand state rights and state representation. it is what it is, lol