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New claim: Constitution does not require hasty Electoral College vote, check fraud first

By Paul Bedard

Published December 5, 2020 2:31pm ET

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New claim: Constitution does not require hasty Electoral College vote, check fraud first — On Thursday, people protested in support of counting all votes in the Nevada vote in front of the Clark County Election Department in Las Vegas. A state judge heard arguments but made no immediate decision Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 in a bid by the Donald Trump campaign to nullify the results of the statewide presidential election set to deliver six electoral votes to the Democrat, Joe Biden, based on his 33,596-vote victory. Jesse Binnall, the attorney heading the Trump challenge of the Nevada election on behalf of six Republican delegates to the Electoral College, told Judge James Todd Russell in Carson City that so many fraudulent votes were cast in Democratic-leaning Clark County that Trump won the state, not Biden.

States rushing to brush aside President Trump’s legal challenges to begin picking electors by Monday are being advised to slow down in a new advisory that says the only date the Constitution mentions is Jan. 20, Inauguration Day.

Citing language in the famous Bush vs. Gore Supreme Court decision, the advisory said that while federal law sets two days in December for moving forward with the Electoral College voting, the Constitution doesn’t.

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