The Epoch Times
by Mimi Nguyen Ly
January 4, 2021
Excerpt:
Trump campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis on Monday suggested that Vice President Mike Pence could delay the certification of the Electoral College votes and ask the legislatures in six states where the results of the election have been contested which slate of electors should be selected.
Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada, are six key battle ground states where President Donald Trump’s campaign and other Republicans have contested the results of the presidential election, alleging that election fraud and irregularities took place on a large scale that swung the results to Biden.
The governors in these states had certified electors who cast their electoral votes for presidential candidate Joe Biden. But on Dec. 14, Republican electors in these six states and New Mexico cast alternative slates of Electoral College votes for Trump, setting up a “dueling electors” scenario not seen in U.S. elections for decades.
Ellis suggested on the Just the News program “The Water Cooler with David Brody” that Pence could ask the respective state legislatures of the six contested states which of the two slates of electors was in accordance with state law.
“[Pence] can ask that question to the states and say, ‘Well, legislators, you know, I have an oath to the Constitution to uphold the Constitution as written in Article II Section 1.2, which says the state legislatures direct the manner in which electoral delegates are selected. So you tell me which of these two slates was selected in the manner that your general assembly has designated,’” Ellis said.
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