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Valdosta

(331 posts)
Thu Oct 10, 2024, 02:43 PM Oct 2024

West Virginia House introduces resolution that would not recognize a Presidential election under specific circumstances

West Virginia House introduces resolution that would not recognize a Presidential election under specific circumstances
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/west-virginia-house-introduces-resolution-that-would-not-recognize-a-presidential-election-under-specific-circumstances/ar-AA1rPWNa

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House Concurrent Resolution 203 said the “Democrat-led regime has utterly failed and continues to fail in a suspicious manner, in its absolute duty to adequately protect the Republican nominee for President.”

The resolution said the state wouldn’t recognize the election of a Democratic candidate if the Republican presidential or vice presidential candidate is “assassinated, seriously injured during an assassination attempt, incarcerated, defacto eliminated or barred from the ballot in any states, or is the subject of legal actions that preclude their effective campaigning.”

It also said if the West Virginia Attorney General or Secretary of State with the State Legislature “determine[d]” election fraud or interference was the reason the candidate got the majority in the Electoral College, they would not recognize the candidate’s election.

If it is determined that the “illegal or illicit elimination” of the Republican presidential or vice presidential candidate happened, or if election fraud or interference results “in the Constitutionally illegitimate selection of a President during the 2024 election cycle,” the Legislature will be called into a special session to “preserve the Freedom of our People,” according to the resolution.

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West Virginia House introduces resolution that would not recognize a Presidential election under specific circumstances (Original Post) Valdosta Oct 2024 OP
Is this nonsense contagious? Bayard Oct 2024 #1
i'm not sure that law is even legal itself... ret5hd Oct 2024 #2
It will be tied up in court for a while if invoked. Valdosta Oct 2024 #3

Bayard

(28,177 posts)
1. Is this nonsense contagious?
Thu Oct 10, 2024, 02:51 PM
Oct 2024

What is it with these states thinking they can rewrite the Constitution now?

ret5hd

(22,078 posts)
2. i'm not sure that law is even legal itself...
Thu Oct 10, 2024, 02:57 PM
Oct 2024

at least the way it is explained here.

i don’t think you can write a law that says “protect THIS person under THESE circumstances…but not THAT person under the exact same circumstances.

i’ll let the lawyers here comment, but that just wouldn’t fly i don’t think.

Valdosta

(331 posts)
3. It will be tied up in court for a while if invoked.
Thu Oct 10, 2024, 03:01 PM
Oct 2024

That might even be the calculation.

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