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Wicked Blue

(5,832 posts)
Wed Jan 6, 2021, 06:11 PM Jan 2021

Electoral College ballots rescued from Senate floor by staff: HuffPost

Carla RussoReporter
1 minute ago
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) tweeted a picture of several cases apparently containing electoral college ballots, which he said were "rescued from the Senate floor" by floor staff.

"If our capable floor staff hadn't grabbed them, they would have been burned by the mob," Merkley said.

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Electoral College ballots rescued from Senate floor by staff: HuffPost (Original Post) Wicked Blue Jan 2021 OP
Good job Jerry2144 Jan 2021 #1
There are five or six duplicates. It would not have mattered much. Make7 Jan 2021 #2

Make7

(8,543 posts)
2. There are five or six duplicates. It would not have mattered much.
Wed Jan 6, 2021, 06:14 PM
Jan 2021

But good on those securing them today.


ETA:

Six copies to four destinations: 1 to President of the Senate, 2 to the Secretary of State of their state, 2 to the Archivist to the United States, and 1 to a federal judge in the district where the state's Electors met.

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