Why An Electoral College Challenge Is Imperative.. by David Catron

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 Why An Electoral College Challenge Is Imperative
The state legislatures, courts, and the media shamelessly shirked their duty.

by David Catron
January 5, 2021, 1:43 AM

Predictably, after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and ten GOP Senators announced their intention to reject electors “not lawfully certified” but nonetheless included in the Electoral College results, many Democrats accused them of “sedition.” In reality, these Senators and their House counterparts are duty bound to object. The cowardice of Republican legislatures in disputed states, dereliction of duty by the courts and the dishonesty of the “news” media has forced them to take action. Congress has the final word on who won the presidential election when they convene Wednesday to certify the Electoral College results. That certification vote is the last opportunity for our elected representatives to resolve allegations of illegal election activity in November.

As Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and ten senators who will join him in objecting to disputed electors pointed out in a statement, “Reuters/Ipsos polling, tragically, shows that 39% of Americans believe ‘the election was rigged.’ That belief is held by Republicans (67%), Democrats (17%), and Independents (31%).” It should be blindingly obvious that it simply isn’t possible to ignore such a gigantic amount of voter distrust in the outcome of any presidential election without doing serious damage to our electoral system. Moreover, this should be a bipartisan cause for acute anxiety. As the Cruz statement poignantly puts it, “It should concern us all. And it poses an ongoing threat to the legitimacy of any subsequent administrations.”

That includes the Biden administration, of course, which will suffer a crippling legitimacy crisis if Congress fails to address the innumerable questions involving violations of election law and outright fraud in at least five states — Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. In all five, state officials illegally usurped legislative prerogatives to make changes to election law. Among these were arbitrary extensions to ballot deadlines, elimination of signature verification requirements for mail-in ballots, use of unsupervised drop boxes for absentee ballots, providing private activist organizations access to voter rolls, ad infinitum. The proposal put forward by Cruz, et al., envisions a special commission:

Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states would evaluate the Commission’s findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed.… Accordingly, we intend to vote on January 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not “regularly given” and “lawfully certified” (the statutory requisite), unless and until that emergency 10-day audit is completed.

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