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Another reason to throw the electoral college in the garbage.Trump campaign discussing plans to appoint its own state electors — no matter the results
Trump campaign officials and legal advisers are reportedly preparing to appoint their own state electors
Though states have historically chosen their electors by popular vote, the Cons ution does not mandate that, saying only that
a state shall appoint its electors “in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.”
in 2000, the (REPUG) Supreme Court held in Bush v. Gore that the states
“can take back the power to appoint electors.”
campaign advisers to Trump, in conjunction with Republican state leaders, are preparing to test this theory.
Sources in the Republican Party,
at both state and national levels,
say that the campaign is considering a plan
to “bypass” the popular vote results and
install its own electors in key battleground states where the legislatures are controlled by Republicans.
Republicans control both legislative bodies in the six closest battleground states:
Arizona,
Florida,
Michigan,
North Carolina,
Pennsylvania and
Wisconsin.
Of those six, both Arizona and Florida have Republican governors.
After the national election, the plan goes, the Trump campaign would cry foul about rampant fraud and
demand that state legislators ignore the ballot tabulations and choose their electors directly.
Trump campaign legal adviser said this effort would be framed as protecting the will of the people.
“The state legislatures will say,
‘All right, we’ve been given this cons utional power.
We don’t think the results of our own state are accurate,
so here’s our slate of electors that we think properly reflect the results of our state,’ ”
Trump is fighting for a trustworthy election,
she wrote, “and any argument otherwise is a conspiracy theory intended to muddy the waters.”
“We don’t want to go down that road, but we understand where the law takes us, and we’ll follow the law,”
during the 2000 Florida recount:
Republican Gov. Jeb Bush certified electors for his brother, George W. Bush, before the recount had been settled.
state electors could turn in competing sets of votes, submitted “to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate” — who, by the way, is Vice President Mike Pence.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/trump-campaign-discussing-plans-to-appoint-its-own-state-electors-no-matter-the-results-report/
