How a rogue governor could steal the next presidential election for Trump

[Nevilledog]

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How a rogue governor & one chamber of Congress could steal the 2024 presidential election far more efficiently than the methods Trump & co tried in 2020 — and how changes to the Electoral Count Act intended to constrain Congress could enable it

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How a rogue governor could steal the next presidential election for Trump
The forces that tried to overturn 2020 are taking their act to the states. If Congress only looks inward, they'll be focusing on the wrong threat.
11:09 AM · Jan 31, 2022

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-a-rogue-governor-could-steal-the-next-presidential-election-for-trump-2022-1

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is trying to reform a 135-year-old law to save future elections from being stolen by their own colleagues. But if their well-intentioned attempts prove successful, they may inadvertently create a pathway for a less discussed but more urgent threat: a rogue governor in a swing state like Georgia single-handedly undermining the democratic process.

Congress first passed the Electoral Count Act, or ECA, following the disputed 1876 election between Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes, which was marred by allegations of fraud and the disenfranchisement of Black voters.

The Electoral Commission of 1877 holds a secret session by candlelight in Washington, DC. The commission was set up to decide the result of the controversial presidential election between Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J Tilden, and resulted in the 22 contested votes from Florida, Louisiana, Oregon and South Carolina being eventually awarded to Hayes.

But as former President Donald Trump continues to relentlessly push his false claims of a fraudulent presidential election and openly says it should have been "overturned," some members of Congress want to revise the 19th-century law.

The proposed reforms to the ECA are designed to prevent the executive branch and Congress from undermining elections, as Trump and dozens of Republican members of Congress tried to do by raising objections to results at the state level in Arizona and Pennsylvania, and pressuring former Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the ratification of then-candidate Joe Biden's Electoral College victory, leading to the January 6 insurrection.

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[PortTack]

1. That is really a stretch

The ECCA isn’t that easy to side step

[Nevilledog]

4. Just cuz no one's done it, doesn't mean they won't try. I read this also.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4018380

https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=467087112103028086095066026000103081113017041087020051010019072024099094122102108089004033055004033104044087096005013114087069062033006049092008066125080029095012093086016046020081025119074019120114088070090000101125030065107120020123079110095084097084&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE

I tried to excerpt it, but it wouldn't let me cut & paste.

[lagomorph777]

2. Scary as hell.

I hope Congress reads this. Or at least the Dems.

[Tatertot]

3. If republicans steal the 2024 election

It will be by law via state legislatures overriding the states popular vote to award the state electors to the republican candidate. It is unclear to me how this can legally be combated and what the citizens, who’s popular will has been reversed, will do

[2naSalit]

5. WHich why it's imperative...

That the two voting rights Bills be passed.

[Tatertot]

6. Does the voting rights bills

Prevent a legislature from overriding a popular vote in the absence of documented fraud sufficient to alter the vote outcome?

Or for that matter, does it prevent a legislature from awarding electors without an election. Because if they already know a republican won, why hold a public election?