Mortdooley wrote on Jun 23
rd, 2021 at 11:37pm:
Raven wrote on Jun 23
rd, 2021 at 11:04pm:
A question for wombat and Moort.
Let’s play pretend and say that these audits uncover legitimate massive voter fraud that Republican controlled states missed and swung the election in Biden’s favour. What happens next?
Probably get Pelosi as President due to the line of succession until the 2024 election.
Incorrect.
It all goes back to how the Electoral College works. Presidents aren't elected nationwide but state by state, indirectly. When you vote for president, you're not directly electing a president but voting for a slate of electors to vote for the presidential ticket you want.
Furthermore, states are free to appoint their slates of electors as they choose — they just have to do so by the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. While all 50 states hold elections to appoint their electors, the Constitution doesn't require them to do so. And there's no constitutional right to vote for president.
Once the electors cast their votes in December and Congress counts those votes, as they did on January 7, it's over.
After a president is sworn in, the only mechanism to remove them is through impeachment.
And even if these “audits” were to blow the cover off a massive plot to rig the election, Congress could remove Biden only for high crimes and misdemeanors committed
in officeThere is no constitutional or legal remedy to overturn the results of an election once the Electoral College votes have been certified by Congress.