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Nevilledog

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Tue Feb 1, 2022, 08:11 PM Feb 2022

AZ & WI: Legis. were told lawmakers cannot alter electors' selections or actions after an election



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Documents we obtained show that in November 2020, legislative leaders in Wisconsin and Arizona received memos confirming that state lawmakers cannot alter electors’ selection after an election — a strategy Trump allies had floated after the 2020 election.
https://americanoversight.org/legislative-leaders-in-arizona-wisconsin-were-sent-memos-regarding-the-ability-of-state-lawmakers-to-alter-selection-of-electors-following-2020-election
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5:00 PM · Feb 1, 2022


https://www.americanoversight.org/legislative-leaders-in-arizona-wisconsin-were-sent-memos-regarding-the-ability-of-state-lawmakers-to-alter-selection-of-electors-following-2020-election

Memos obtained by American Oversight show that in the weeks before Trump supporters in several states gathered to falsely proclaim themselves the true presidential electors in the 2020 election, legislative leaders in Arizona and Wisconsin appear to have sought legal advice regarding whether legislators had the power to alter the selection of electors after the election had taken place.

Both memos, one sent to Arizona Senate President Karen Fann by that state’s Legislative Council and the other to Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos by that state’s Legislative Reference Bureau, confirmed that state lawmakers cannot alter electors’ selections or actions after an election — a democratically dangerous strategy that had been floated by allies of former President Donald Trump seeking to overturn his 2020 election loss.

It isn’t clear whether Fann or Vos sought the guidance in furtherance of such a plan, or whether it was to dismiss calls from the Trump campaign and members of their own party to take such action. Both Fann and Vos would go on to pursue highly partisan and flawed investigations of the election in their states, based on false claims of widespread voter fraud.

In a memo sent to Vos on Nov. 16, 2020, an attorney from Wisconsin’s Legislative Reference Bureau wrote, “You have asked whether the legislature, after a presidential election, may affect the selection or actions of the state’s presidential electors.” The attorney explained that the legislature cannot retroactively change the selection or actions of presidential electors.

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AZ & WI: Legis. were told lawmakers cannot alter electors' selections or actions after an election (Original Post) Nevilledog Feb 2022 OP
"They didn't taughted us how to reading no memos in my school, and anyways I wouldn't have no how" struggle4progress Feb 2022 #1
Dammit, where's the Federalist Society on this? gratuitous Feb 2022 #2
I'm more interested in the contact these legislators had with the subsequent fake electors Nevilledog Feb 2022 #3
Hiding Gorsuch from the press malaise Feb 2022 #4

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. Dammit, where's the Federalist Society on this?
Tue Feb 1, 2022, 08:17 PM
Feb 2022

How can you say someone "won" an "election" just because they got more "votes" than the other "candidate"? What's the authority for that cockamamie idea? Winners should be chosen by Wise Ones, you know, like in the Federalist Society.

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