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US Electoral College affirms Joe Biden’s victory

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    stu2b50
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    Electoral votes were entirely uneventful - unless Hawaiian electors like going to jail there were zero faithless electors. At this point, it's extremely dubious (i.e not happening) what any legal...

    Electoral votes were entirely uneventful - unless Hawaiian electors like going to jail there were zero faithless electors.

    At this point, it's extremely dubious (i.e not happening) what any legal challenge could possibly do. Even if there was provable fraud, by this point, it's out of the judiciary's court - the electoral votes has been cast and counting is solely Congress's, the first among equals, territory.

    So there's now technically two possibilities: the overwhelmingly likely one is Biden is chosen as the electoral victor, the other one is that Republicans object to the votes and never come to an agreement... which would lead to President Nancy Pelosi.

    With the Romney-Collins-Murkowski block more than enough to be a majority in the senate, not very likely anything is actually going to happen in the worst of cases.

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    1. MonkeyPants
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      Republicans attempt to disrupt Electoral College process in states Biden won

      Republicans attempt to disrupt Electoral College process in states Biden won

      In Arizona last week, a group called "AZ Protect the Vote" decided to select its own slate of 11 voters and told the National Archives in Washington, D.C. to expect the state to vote for Trump and Pence. The group produced notarized documents supposedly certifying the vote for Trump and sent it over, even though Biden handily won the state, The Arizona Republic reports. On Monday, Arizona's 11 Democratic electors actually cast their votes, and will send them to Congress next week for an official count.

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