Interesting, a Representative to Congress from Alabama believes the 2020 election results are the result of fraud. Alabama now seems to be in the mix. He may be working with the Alabama Legislature to contest the electoral votes from Alabama.Posted by iota (here)
Formal Call to Challenge the Electoral College has been made
Rep Mo Brooks of the state of Alabama has called for the Electoral College to be Challenged. He stated:
"in my judgement, if only lawful votes cast by eligible United States Citizens are counted, President Trump has easily won the Electoral College and second term as President.
As such, it is my duty to under the United States Constitution on January 6, if the required ONE Senator will join me, to object to and later vote to reject reject Electoral College Votes submissions from states whose election systems are so badly flawed as to render their vote submissions unreliable, untrustworthy, and unworthy of acceptance."
just takes one Senator to join!!
Senator contact info by state:
https://www.senate.gov/general/contacting.htm
What is also interesting if that happens is that, pursuant to the US Constitution and the Electoral Count Act, both houses of Congress (Senate and Representatives) are to meet on January 6 to count the electoral votes of each state as certified and sent to Congress by each state.
Under the Act, the votes are to be counted in alphabetical order. Alabama is the first state in that order.
The Act further provides that both houses of Congress must agree on the vote as certified by a state. If both houses cannot agree all further counting stops until both houses agree. (Or, perhaps, the SCOTUS breaks the deadlock some how. Intervention and action by the SCOTUS is becoming increasingly likely.) That is, Congress cannot go on to count the electoral votes of the next state until it has agreed on the votes of each prior state.
So, hypothetically, if the Governor of Alabama certifies the votes for Biden and sends that to Congress, but the Legislature of Alabama sends Congress a competing certification for Trump, or says to Congress don’t certify any votes from Alabama, and if both houses cannot agree on what to do in that event, under the Act all further counting of the electoral college votes must stop. Under this hypo that would be at the very first state to come up to be counted—Alabama.
Then what? One possibility is:
If by Inauguration Day on 1/20/2021 Congress has not broken the stalemate the Speaker of the House, currently Nancy Pelosi, would become “Acting President” and continue to act until Congress does finish the process of counting every state’s electoral votes and thereby elect the President and VP.
The foregoing is true whether the counting stops at Alabama or some other state. Say, Pennsylvania. In that regard, it is my understanding that the PA legislature sent a letter, signed by 76 members, to Congress advising Congress not to count the electoral votes certified by the PA governor if the certification is for Biden. (76 is 30% of the PA legislature.)
I think this hypothetical will not come to pass. (I shudder at the thought.). But it might. If it does in some form come to pass, Art II, Sec. 1, the 12 and 20th Amendments to the Constitution (and other provisions) and the Act provide the road map for Congress and the SCOTUS to follow.




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