The emerging plan by several House and Senate Republicans to challenge the Electoral College votes of at least six states is to challenge changes made to ease mail-in voting and raise examples of fraudulent votes by the dead and out-of-staters.
The GOP, led by Reps. Mo Brooks of Alabama, Jim Jordan of Ohio, and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, will focus on the delegate votes from Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Arizona.
The plan is to challenge those, a move that will require the joint session overseen by Vice President Mike Pence to break up for a two-hour debate in each chamber followed by a vote to accept or reject the ballots.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) January 4, 2021
While rejection is unlikely since several Republican lawmakers have joined with Democrats to oppose the challenge to Joe Biden’s election by the Electoral College, if enough are tossed, the election could then be put before the House for president and Senate for vice president.
If that happens, the House vote changes from all 435 members in the Democrat-controlled chamber to one vote per state. The GOP controls more delegations, giving Trump an opening to be reelected.
Why will there be objections on #JAN6?
Because election irregularities demand investigation.@newsmax @stinchfield1776 pic.twitter.com/G6vQ2vKQWb
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) January 5, 2021
The authoritative Congressional Research Service said in a report last month, “In the event that no candidate has received a majority of the Electoral votes for president, the election is ultimately to be decided by the House of Representatives in which the names of the three candidates receiving the most electoral votes for president are considered by the House, with each state having one vote.”
The effort will come during a full day of election protests by pro- and anti-Trump groups in Washington that some fear will spill over into the debates.
Promises made. Promises kept.
Today I signed objections to tainted electoral college vote submissions of Arizona Georgia Michigan Nevada Pennsylvania Wisconsin.
Senators? Time to sign on, too!
America must not tolerate voter fraud & election theft that undermines our Republic! pic.twitter.com/9kzwqbRZuK
— Mo Brooks (@RepMoBrooks) January 4, 2021
Jordan told Fox Business host Lou Dobbs that the Electoral College votes will be challenged in two ways.
The first will draw attention to how state agencies and governors, not legislatures, as required by the Constitution, made changes to clear mail-in voting.
You recall last week we published two other important charts: the set-up to an election fraught with ineptitude, law-breaking, and straight up fraud. First, the massive jump in mail-in and absentee ballot requests vs. in-person voting.
2/ pic.twitter.com/fecRlWDLus— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) January 5, 2021
The second will be to present reports on voter fraud, such as the dead and illegal immigrants voting, to examples where GOP poll watchers were banned.
“Several of those states,” said Jordan, “you had entities go around the state legislatures.”
He added, “Then you add the fraud on top of it. Those are the arguments that we’ll be making.”
