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steve2470

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5. "just a PR stunt"

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Wed Dec 2, 2020, 03:17 PM

Dec 2020

Absent competing slates of electors, this is just a PR stunt. Under 3 U.S.C. § 15, Brooks would ultimately need a *majority* of the Senate to endorse his challenge; and when (not if) the House disagrees, the electors certified by "the executive of the State ... shall be counted."

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