At Least 140 House Republicans Expected To Challenge Electoral College Result; Eight Pennsylvania Congressmen Plan to Object to Election Results, and related 2020 Election stories
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At Least 140 House Republicans Expected To Challenge Electoral College Result: Topline:
As many as 140 Republican House members are expected to object to certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory as part of President Donald Trump’s continued efforts to overturn his reelection loss.
Key Facts
> “2 House Republicans tell me they expect as of now that at least 140 Republican Members of the House will on Jan. 6 object to and vote against the Electoral College results,” tweeted CNN host Jake Tapper on Thursday.
> Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) told Forbes a “staggering number” of his Republican House colleagues will likely object, adding, “140 certainly seems possible… I wouldn’t be surprised if it were a little higher.”
> Riggleman said he initially expected around a hundred objections but that “pressure [is] being exerted” on House Republicans – as evidenced by state delegations putting out joint statements vowing to object to the vote. —>READ MORE HERE
Eight Pennsylvania congressmen plan to object to election results:
Eight Republican members of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation signaled Thursday that they will object to the Electoral College results when Congress meets to formally certify them on Jan. 6.
The members said Pennsylvania lawmakers, election officials, and/or courts illegally authorized the use of drop boxes, didn’t do proper signature matching on mail-in ballots, and improperly allowed officials to accept ballots past 8 p.m. on Election Day.
“The Pennsylvania election could be summed up as a free-for-all with no oversight and different standards applied throughout the commonwealth,” the members said.
They said the scope of the inaccuracies aren’t known and that Pennsylvania’s certifying the commonwealth’s 20 electors for President-elect Joseph R. Biden was based on a flawed system.
“Until these unlawful practices are acknowledged and corrected, we cannot agree to support electors chosen based upon an inaccurate total vote count,” they said. —>READ MORE HERE
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