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So advocating for Senators and representatives to vote in a particular way is a problem?

• maxerickson 6y ago
  The sitting president advocating that Congress ignore the law is problematic, yes. The certification by Congress is ceremonial, it's a counting of the results provided by the states, not an evaluation of those results.
  • gwright 6y ago
    I don't believe that is correct. Congress has the power to reject electors and has done so on several occasions. There are established procedures for this process: https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/explaining-how-congress-settles-electoral-college-disputes https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/explaining-how-congress-...
    • maxerickson 6y ago
      Okay fine, but guess what a Democratic house is going to do with objections when there aren't wild irregularities, they are going to reject the objections. If the chambers are split, it becomes ceremonial. You'd almost think the law they wrote was intended to make it ceremonial, while reserving the capability to do something in the face of a real problem.