(December 9, 2020 at 7:12 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:(December 9, 2020 at 12:33 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: All that’s left is for Republicans to object to a state’s tally, and those objections have to be approved by a simple majority of BOTH houses. That’s not going to happen.
Relax. It’s over. There’s nothing left but the bitching.
Boru
So, if the Republicans controlled the House, they get to elect themselves a president? Who the **** decided that was a good idea?
The U.S. election system is held together by string and tape. There is no way this thing holds together for another century.
Possibly, yes. But in the situation described above, such an outcome would be very unlikely. It hasn’t been the remotest of possibilities until Trump slithered onto the scene.
Congressional counting of the votes is pretty much a formality, as Congress is required by law to accept the vote of the electoral college. I haven’t checked, but I’m sure there have been instances in the past where one party controlled both houses, and the election of a president from the opposition went right ahead.
Boru
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