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Romney having one of those moments where he grows a spine briefly

I get a week's reprieve from the horrors of the Chicago Bears offense.

oh for fuck's sake

Here's what the U.S. Senate discussed today--its last day before taking a break for Thanksgiving--while 1,900 Americans were dying of a plague.

4 hours ago, Jason said:

 

So Trump is planning to leave office early? 

Maybe he's not counting the days Trump's gonna be golfing?

Yeah, each state votes in one block for God knows what reason. GOP would be guaranteed to win unless somebody had a conscience and crossed party lines (lol)

A lot of people are saying that ranked choice measure could be a pretty big deal, because it could give Murkowski more cover to cross party lines more since she wouldn't be going through a traditional primary.

7 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

 

Look at the election of 1864.  The rebel states were still technically a part of the US, but they didn't send electors to the electoral college.  This reduced the number of total EVs from over 300 to 234 members.  If a state doesn't send electors, then the total EV count goes down, and the subsequent winning margin.  

 

Sending the election to the house only comes into play if there is a tie, or if there are more than 2 candidates and no one candidate receives a majority of the votes. 

This is what the 12th amendment says,

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The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.

So, yeah, you might be right in this case since those states wouldn't end up appointing electors, I dunno. It is true, though, that it doesn't specifically say it's only in the case of a tie. If a third party ever won, like, Alaska, and the vote finished 269-266-3 then the election would go to the House because nobody had 270.

21 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

Pretty sure if a state doesn't certify,  and the legislature doesn't have electors to send to the electoral college, then those electoral votes are just not factored into the equation.  So for instance, if Michigan goes this route, the total number of electors drops to 522, and the winning number is then 262 electoral votes. 

 

Biden still wins.

 

If GA + MI have no electors, then there are 506 total electors, then the winning number is 254.  

 

Biden still wins. 

 

EDIT:  Even if GA, MI, WI, AZ, NV all didn't send electors, Biden would still win. 

 

If Biden keeps NV in his column, he would still win even if GA, MI, WI, AZ, and PA do not send electors -  Winning 233 to 232.

 

If neither candidate gets 270 then it goes to the House no matter what, I think. That's the whole idea behind this plan, such as it is, just try and get Biden below 270.

Alright, well, there's one crisis averted. We've only got like 2 months of this to go.

Yeah, there's a statewide canvassing board that it goes to now for a vote instead, and everyone on Twitter is already like, "Well, don't worry the canvassing board will just approve it then," but... I'm done assuming anything at this point, personally. But apparently the next step after THAT is it would go the courts, so as long as judges keep telling Republicans to eat shit in these cases, they can't actually steal the state.

Apparently there was an imbalance of like 100 votes when they did an audit and the Republicans are saying that they can't certify the results based on that, but people who cover this stuff regularly say that that kind of an imbalance is typical and if everyone was acting in good faith wouldn't hold this up at all unless there was a recount.

The entire Republican party at all levels has Terminal Facebook Brain

Basically an instruction to try kidnapping the governor again

Absolute sociopaths

Yeah, I just got back from grocery shopping as well, and toilet paper is back to limit 1 per customer again.

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Is Twitter just gonna stick with these "this claim about election fraud is disputed" warnings indefinitely? Once all of these states have had their results certified are they going to be merely "disputed"? What would it take to get to, "this claim about election fraud is complete horseshit"?

They're tanking to get the #1 pick in the next lawyer draft

3 hours ago, osxmatt said:

 

It's a fucking cult.

Pot saved a lot of people's jobs in Chicago

lol

I appreciate him putting the thin blue line flag in there, just to remove any remaining doubt about what it actually stands for.