Current Events > If they want to nullify electors, shouldn't that decrease the EC total?

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https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/12/09/trump-says-hell-join-texas-lawsuit-asking-supreme-court-to- block-62-biden-electors-from-four-states/

President Donald Trump and 17 GOP-controlled states filed motions Wednesday backing Texas longshot legal effort to get the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn results in four states that helped deliver the presidency to Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump called this the big one after losing more than three dozen cases in federal and state courts alleging ballot tampering and fraud.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit on Monday, effectively asking the nations highest court to negate 10.4 million ballots from voters who picked Biden over Trump in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Officials in those states called the lawsuit a baseless stunt. The Supreme Court has given them until 3 p.m. Thursday to file responses.
Trumps legal team has found no traction in court for his unsubstantiated claims that the election was rigged or stolen.

We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case. This is the big one. Our Country needs a victory! Trump tweeted, calling it the case that everyone has been waiting for.... It is very strong, ALL CRITERIA MET. How can you have a presidency when a vast majority think the election was RIGGED?
Only the Supreme Court has jurisdiction in controversies between state governments. The court has signaled little interest in second-guessing state election procedures after the fact, though it offered Trump a glimmer of hope by not rejecting Texas challenge out of hand. Five justices would have to agree to hear the case.
Paxtons lawsuit accuses the other four states of making unlawful changes to their election policies during the COVID-19 pandemic, creating a massive opportunity for fraud.

Texas is asking the justices to block those four states 62 electors from casting ballots on Monday when the Electoral College meets to formalize Bidens 306-232 win, and suggests the states Republican-controlled legislatures should choose electors. That would entail ignoring all ballots cast for Biden and awarding his electoral votes to the loser, which struck some Democrats as ironic given Trumps claim the election has been stolen from him.
A group of prominent Republicans that includes former New Jersey Gov. Christie Todd Whitman and former Missouri Sen. John Danforth filed a friend of the court brief urging rejection of Texas unprecedented argument that a presidential election dispute is a controversy between two or more states.
They point to the Constitutions Electors Clause, which says that each State shall appoint [its electors] in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct. That, they argue, means that any challenge is a matter for each states courts, not subject to challenge by another state or to Supreme Court intervention.

Theres more but I can't be bothered to copy and paste it all right now

If you negate or nullify those electors from the traditional 538 count shouldn't the new total be 476 and thus Biden would still have a majority?

No idea.

I'm under the impression they want to flip the 62 for a Trump win. Otherwise why would they even bother? That would be what... 244-294?

It's all such and mess and I'm getting sick of it tbh. Let's be done with this shit.

I'm at the point where I say get rid of both of them and start a whole new election with two fresh candidates....most people don't really like biden and voted for him because he's not trump anyway, right? Let's do it, lol.

Demon1050 posted...

I'm under the impression they want to flip the 62 for a Trump win. Otherwise why would they even bother? That would be what... 244-294?

Texas is asking the justices to block those four states 62 electors from casting ballots on Monday when the Electoral College meets to formalize Bidens 306-232 win, and suggests the states Republican-controlled legislatures should choose electors. That would entail ignoring all ballots cast for Biden and awarding his electoral votes to the loser, which struck some Democrats as ironic given Trumps claim the election has been stolen from him

I missed the second half of this, which implies that.

However that requires so much Legistlative movement its unlikely to take effect in time so let's assume they're just nullifying those electors from the count.

Also love how they're drumming on about rigging an election while actively trying to do that after the fact

MachineJaipur posted...

Also love how they're drumming on about rigging an election while actively trying to do that

party of projection

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The GOP are traitors, plain and simple.

"18 U.S. Code 2381. Treason

""Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death""

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PepsiWithCoke posted...

The GOP are traitors, plain and simple.

Yeah but their supporters wholly believe that of democrats

i know with georgia he was talking about those votes flipping to him. sure it's the same with the others.

MachineJaipur posted...

Yeah but their supporters wholly believe that of democrats

Sometimes 1 side is correct and the other is just wrong.

Trying to steal the election the way Repubs are doing it is wrong.
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