The 2020 Presidential Race

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Originally Posted by deolio

Yeah, you keep quoting yourself over and over, but that doesn't clarify shit. What you and s14rebuild wrote is nearly unintelligible.

As I understand it (thanks google), on January 6th, Pence is gonna use his wittle hands to open his wittle wetter with the electoral vote totals in congress. If anyone has an objection to a state's electoral vote count the two houses fuck off and debate it separately. If they both approve the objection then the electoral votes for that state will be invalidated.

If they invalidate enough states' electoral votes for Biden (so that he does not have 270 electoral votes) then the vote will go to the house of reps, where every state only gets one vote, which mayyyy lead to Biden losing - since the house is majority Republican.

Is something else at play here? What am I missing? This shit still sounds HIGLY improbable.

Finally. Close. All but the last part. I mean, you have to admit that its a lot to try to explain between shitposts. The voters in that scenario are forced to vote along state party lines with one vote for each state. In which case Trump wins it with something like 26:24 or 27:23.

Has it been a long shot? Yes. But the democrats have been playing right into it at every checkpoint. It's coming down to if the republicans have the balls to make it happen.

Originally Posted by deolio

Made me think of another question - are they legally acting as electors under this circumstance? If so, wouldn't voting opposite of their state make them faithless electors? If that is the case then Biden still wins since 26 states voted Biden.

Separate from that other scenario^
The alternate electors would come in if something like one of these audits proves Trump won. The alternate electors' votes would be certified by the Governor(s), and Mike Pence could choose which set of electors is counted. I don't see it going this way though. The dueling electors, IMO, is mainly some kind of smoke signal like how the 40 something state AGs signed onto the Texas lawsuit. It's telling the members of the houses that they're all on board with objecting to the electoral votes while exhausting all other means first.