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“I will tell you, the Lt. Gov. [Geoff Duncan] in Georgia, the Secretary of State in Georgia [Brad Raffensperger], they’re in for quite a shock on Monday and Tuesday about how poorly they ran — there’s going to be a proof — of how poorly they ran the elections in one of their major counties.”

These Three States Can Stop the Steal

Will the GOP legislatures of GA, PA, and MI have the courage to end this travesty?

It could hardly be more obvious that the Democrats approached the 2020 election willing to do anything, from illegally altering state election laws to committing brazen ballot fraud, in the cause of defeating President Trump. It’s equally clear that the “news” media are abetting this travesty by studiously ignoring credible evidence while anointing Joe Biden “President-elect.” This corrupt contingency is precisely why the framers created the Electoral College. No one becomes “president-elect” until the members of that body meet in their respective states to cast their ballots. Who selects the electors? The Constitution unambiguously reserves the power and the method by which these appointees are chosen to state legislatures in Article II, Section I:

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.

Note that this clause omits any mention of officials not belonging to the legislatures. Nor does it mention courts. Moreover, the electors aren’t required to cast their ballots according to the outcome of the popular vote. To make sense of this, it must be remembered that these appointees aren’t chosen like juries. In most states, each political party selects a slate of electors from a pool of its activists. When the voters cast ballots in the general election, they are voting for the people listed on those party slates. If a majority of a state’s popular vote goes to the Republican ticket, the GOP slate of electors is certified and they elect the president on the Monday after the second Wednesday in December.

That the framers vested the legislatures with the sole power to choose electors is particularly important if there is reason to dispute the legitimacy of an election — as is the case in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. In Georgia, for example, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the state’s county clerks conducted last week’s “risk-limiting audit” without any attempt to verify signatures on mail-in votes. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp chastised them, suggesting that the discovery of thousands of previously uncounted ballots — which reduced Biden’s ostensible lead by 1,200 votes — should have alerted them that there was a serious discrepancy. He instructed Raffensperger to fix it.

... The GOP enjoys legislative majorities in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. In these states, election laws were flouted, ballot fraud was widespread, and election officials were threatened. If not for important deadlines like the safe harbor date (December 8) by which states must resolve post-election disputes such as recounts and the federally mandated date (December 14) on which the Electoral College must meet to vote, it would be theoretically possible for the Trump legal team to prevail. At this point, only state legislatures have the constitutional power and the time to stop the steal. Do they have the guts? (read more)

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