Showing posts with label Electoral College. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Electoral College. Show all posts

Sunday, November 8, 2020

Joe Biden: President Elect -- Not Yet, Not Ever?

The corporate media, both in the US and throughout the English-speaking world, have declared Joe Biden US President Elect. However, President Elect, Jo Biden is not. 

Whatever the eventual result of last week's election, and votes are still being counted, re-counted and challenged, it will not determine who is elected as the next US President. 

The next US President will be elected by the Electoral College to which, according to Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution: 

each state shall appoint electors:
"in such Manner as the Legislature Thereof May Direct."
So as Jim Jatras, author of this FB post asks:
Will GOP state legislatures of PA WI MI do their duty?
And, speaking of the Electoral College vote, Alistaire Crooke writes:
Though the maths and maps suggests Biden will likely reach 270 Electoral votes, the old saying ‘It ain’t over ’till it’s over’, holds true. The electoral vote scenarios in the key ‘swing states’ would only apply if there is no litigation, fraud or theft. However all three are in play – If you are stuffing the ballot box, you first wait to see what the regular vote is, so that you know how many votes you ‘need’ (mathematical anomalies aside) to push your candidate over the top. Trump, somewhat rashly, gave out the GOP vote calculations at 02.30 on Wednesday, and hey-presto, loads of absentee ballots suddenly arrived at certain polling stations at around 04.00. That seems to have happened in Wisconsin, where over 100,000 Biden votes appeared seemingly out of nowhere on a flash drive delivered by hand from a Democratic district. That put Biden ahead in Wisconsin – but litigation is in process. Likewise, it appears that a huge “absentee ballot” dump appeared in Michigan that heavily favored Biden.
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