BREAKING: Georgia State Senate Report: Election Results Are ‘Untrustworthy;’ Certification Should Be Rescinded

But if the General Assembly is heavily Republican, could they do it? Who could stop them?
And they wouldn't do it without the mounds of compelling evidence...not for Donald Trump.
One problem with their scheme is that the law requires the EC vote certification be attached to a copy of the ascertainment, signed by the governor.

Which is why the law says if two EC vote counts are received, that the one signed by the governor takes precedence.
Well that's a relief. If it gets that far.

No, that's not an accurate statement. It's omitting some rather crucial considerations.

What he's referring to is a scenario wherein on January 6th, when Congress convenes to certify the electoral college votes, there's an objection to a state's electoral votes by members of Congress.

Here's how that works. In a case where there are two sets of electors from a state (one designated by the Gov/Sec of State, and the other by another body, such as state legislative committee), then members of either chamber of Congress (House or Senate) can object to the votes cast by the state's "official" electors (or a portion of its votes).

If the objection is made only by members of one chamber, but not the other (i.e., a House Rep but not a Senator), then the votes that were cast by the electors approved by the governor are required to be counted, and the alternate electors are ignored. (FYI, this happened in 2016 too. Alternate "pro-Hillary" electors were sent from several states, and there were 11 objections made during the January 6th vote and certification. However, they never got off the ground because they were all made by House Reps no Senator joined the objection)

However, if an objection is made by at least one member of each chamber, then it goes to debate by the full chamber. There are procedural issues that could come into play and affect the outcome in such a scenario, but that's not what's going on here anyway so I won't waste time on it.

The resolution that's being proposed here would officially decertify the GA election results, and thereby, decertify the Biden electors appointed by the Secretary of State. That could result in one of two things. One is simply a decertification of GA's electoral votes, meaning its 16 electoral votes would go to nobody (that could be important if it were to happen in enough states (i.e., AZ, GA and WI) such that neither person reaches 270 electoral votes, in which case the whole thing gets kicked to the House of Reps, where the Constitution designates that the President shall be elected by the 50 states by their respective delegations of House Reps, with each state having one vote -- the current breakdown is 30 Republican state delegations, 20 Democrat state delegations). The other possible result is that the General Assembly of the GA legislature could appoint "new" electors (not necessarily the provisional electors that were sent previously, it's not the same thing), and those electors would cast the official electoral votes for GA.
The election is long over.

Trump lost.

Time for conservatives to stop with the ridiculous lies.
 
But if the General Assembly is heavily Republican, could they do it? Who could stop them?
And they wouldn't do it without the mounds of compelling evidence...not for Donald Trump.
One problem with their scheme is that the law requires the EC vote certification be attached to a copy of the ascertainment, signed by the governor.

Which is why the law says if two EC vote counts are received, that the one signed by the governor takes precedence.
Well that's a relief. If it gets that far.

No, that's not an accurate statement. It's omitting some rather crucial considerations.

What he's referring to is a scenario wherein on January 6th, when Congress convenes to certify the electoral college votes, there's an objection to a state's electoral votes by members of Congress.

Here's how that works. In a case where there are two sets of electors from a state (one designated by the Gov/Sec of State, and the other by another body, such as state legislative committee), then members of either chamber of Congress (House or Senate) can object to the votes cast by the state's "official" electors (or a portion of its votes).

If the objection is made only by members of one chamber, but not the other (i.e., a House Rep but not a Senator), then the votes that were cast by the electors approved by the governor are required to be counted, and the alternate electors are ignored. (FYI, this happened in 2016 too. Alternate "pro-Hillary" electors were sent from several states, and there were 11 objections made during the January 6th vote and certification. However, they never got off the ground because they were all made by House Reps no Senator joined the objection)

However, if an objection is made by at least one member of each chamber, then it goes to debate by the full chamber. There are procedural issues that could come into play and affect the outcome in such a scenario, but that's not what's going on here anyway so I won't waste time on it.

The resolution that's being proposed here would officially decertify the GA election results, and thereby, decertify the Biden electors appointed by the Secretary of State. That could result in one of two things. One is simply a decertification of GA's electoral votes, meaning its 16 electoral votes would go to nobody (that could be important if it were to happen in enough states (i.e., AZ, GA and WI) such that neither person reaches 270 electoral votes, in which case the whole thing gets kicked to the House of Reps, where the Constitution designates that the President shall be elected by the 50 states by their respective delegations of House Reps, with each state having one vote -- the current breakdown is 30 Republican state delegations, 20 Democrat state delegations). The other possible result is that the General Assembly of the GA legislature could appoint "new" electors (not necessarily the provisional electors that were sent previously, it's not the same thing), and those electors would cast the official electoral votes for GA.
Thank you for explaining!
 
The resolution that's being proposed here would officially decertify the GA election results, and thereby, decertify the Biden electors appointed by the Secretary of State. That could result in one of two things. One is simply a decertification of GA's electoral votes, meaning its 16 electoral votes would go to nobody (that could be important if it were to happen in enough states (i.e., AZ, GA and WI) such that neither person reaches 270 electoral votes, in which case the whole thing gets kicked to the House of Reps, where the Constitution designates that the President shall be elected by the 50 states by their respective delegations of House Reps, with each state having one vote -- the current breakdown is 30 Republican state delegations, 20 Democrat state delegations). The other possible result is that the General Assembly of the GA legislature could appoint "new" electors (not necessarily the provisional electors that were sent previously, it's not the same thing), and those electors would cast the official electoral votes for GA.

You are leaving out 3 USC 15, the law (1948) which determines how the congress counts such votes. If there is an objection which must be made in writing signed by both a house member and a senator, then each body votes on which electors to accept and which to reject. If the two chambers agree, then that action carries, either accepting or rejecting the electors.

As the two chambers are of opposite parties and not likely to agree on either throwing out BIden electors, or accepting the alternate Trump electors, then the following clause binds them.

3 USC 15 - But if the two Houses shall disagree in respect of the counting of such votes, then, and in that case, the votes of the electors whose appointment shall have been certified by the executive of the State, under the seal thereof, shall be counted.

This would provide for the Biden votes to be the ones counted, as they have the ascertainments signed by the governor.
 

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