Swing-State Voters: Keep the Pressure on Your Republican-Controlled State Legislatures—Especially in Pennsylvania!
BY LISA MICHELLE
Dick Morris recently explained “how Trump can still win,” and much of it boils down to the state legislatures. The state legislatures of the critical swing states, which are Republican controlled, have authority over state election law, and “only the electoral college or the various state legislatures can declare a candidate the winner,” says Morris.
Demand your state legislature and governor do an election audit now!
North Carolina has already been called for President Trump. With a 2:1 lead in Alaska, it should go to him too. Morris believes that a recount in Wisconsin, Arizona, where the gap is beginning to close, Georgia, and importantly, Pennsylvania is the most viable path to victory.
In Georgia, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has already announced an audit, which will trigger a manual recount.
“Will there be a recount in Pennsylvania?” asks Morris.
“The current law requires one if the margin is under 0.5 percent” and in Pennsylvania, it likely will be slightly greater,” Morris continues.
There are two ways to trigger a recount: First, the Supreme Court could order one after the vote counters so flagrantly violated [US Supreme Court Justice] Alito’s order to segregate the votes that he had to re-issue it. And remember, four justices wanted to reconsider whether to allow late ballots entirely but the court deadlocked 4-4 in October. Now with Justice Amy Coney Barrett in the mix, it may take a different view, particularly if the presidency hangs in the balance.
Second, Article II Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution reads:
‘Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.’
The Pennsylvania Legislature, solidly in Republican hands (both houses) may choose to demand a recount before appointing electors. To build the case for doing so, it may hold hearings into the allegations of fraud so as to help the voters of the state understand how flagrantly their votes were mishandled.
Yet, Jack posobiec of One America News and Richard Baris (aka Peoples Pundit), a data journalist and host of “Inside the Numbers,” warn that a recount without an audit is meaningless . . .
Absolutely. Recounts largely just re-feed the same ballots through the same tabulators. https://t.co/SSX1xMuoi2
— Peoples_Pundit (@Peoples_Pundit) November 11, 2020
And as Newsmax reports below, it should come as no great surprise that, once again, the Pennsylvania GOP isn’t exactly cooperating.
“This will be the end of the Republican Party,” Rich Higgins, a former NSC staffer and Trump loyalist, responds to the news . . .
This will be the end of the Republican Party https://t.co/ha6XJ4uJYq
— Rich Higgins (@RichHiggins_DC) November 11, 2020
You can do your part. Keep up the pressure on your state legislatures, especially in Pennsylvania!
Demand your state legislature and governor do an election audit now!
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Pa. GOP Legislature Leaders: We Won’t Interfere in Electoral College
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Newsmax | November 10, 2020
The Pennsylvania General Assembly will not interfere in choosing the state’s presidential electors or help to determine the outcome of the election, as the popular vote determines the electors under state law, the Republican leaders of the state’s Senate and House say.
“To insinuate otherwise is to inappropriately set fear into the Pennsylvania electorate with an imaginary scenario not provided for anywhere in law — or in fact,” Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman, R-Benner Township, and House Majority Leader Kerry Beninghoff, R-Bellefonte, wrote for the Centre Daily Times in State College, PA.
“To set the record — once again — without question: The only and exclusive way that presidential electors can be chosen in Pennsylvania is by the popular vote,” they wrote. “The legislature has no hand in this process whatsoever.”
Corman has doubled down on the statements in the piece, published before the election on Oct. 19, telling reporters that Republicans will continue to honor the wishes of the state’s voters and will not bypass them to appoint electors who would back President Donald Trump, Pittsburgh CBS affiliate KDKA in Pittsburgh reported Monday.
“Our role is to monitor the process, our role is to provide oversight and call out questions where they might need asked, but certainly want to stay with the tradition of the popular vote winner getting the electors,” Corman said, according to Monday’s report.
In their opinion piece, Corman and Beninghoff said the legislature will follow election code passed in 1937 concerning how the state’s voters are to choose electors for the presidential race.
“The General Assembly has a sworn duty to follow the Constitution and the Election Code, which does not involve the legislature in the process of choosing electors,” they wrote. “There have been zero discussions occurring within the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Senate about changing this provision.”
The lawmakers said they understand that “misrepresentations and attention-grabbing social media posts” are part of the rhetoric surrounding the presidential election, but the Assembly must “rise above that.”
With the rise of anti-Americanism, antisemitism and anti-Israel/Zionist propaganda both on and offline, Lisa Michelle has also been an active advocate for America, Israel, and the Jewish community, managing various pro-Israel social networking forums and projects. Continue reading about Lisa Michelle here.
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