What's to stop the GOP from refusing to accept the electoral college results in 2016? [View all]
So, we all know from poll taxes to voter suppression to splitting up a state's electoral college votes to go by district to benefit them how desperate the GOP is to gain and hold on to power at all costs. Therefore, what's to stop the GOP in 2017 if they retain the house and senate majorities from refusing to seat a Democratic President-Elect, which is the likely result of the 2016 election given the present GOP clown car. That'd be 12 impossibly long years (for them) out of power.
Roberts will be their lapdog if it goes to the SCOTUS and having our only hope riding on Kennedy is a discomforting thought indeed. The Vice-President Elect, by constitutional law becomes the President if the house can't agree on a President but if the electoral votes of just 1 state are challenged, the House goes into special session to elect the president and the senate goes into special session to elect the VP. What's to stop McConnell/Boehner from electing Bush/Rubio as President, a possible 2016 GOP ticket? I presume that they would declare some electoral votes invalid first so that they are enabled to go further to elect the President/VP.
The public stood by in 2000 and let the GOP steal the election. I hardly doubt they'd rise up if 2016 is stolen. They're too apathetic and lazy.
How the GOP would manufacture this is to create a "scandal" during the campaign that they could use to say that the President-Elect was unfit to serve.
P.S.: They were prepared to go this route in 2000.
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