VP Mike Pence electoral vote certification duties facts vs lies Part 2: State legislators request 10 day delay in electoral vote count, Did not ask Pence to change outcome
“These elected officials are not asking Mike Pence to overturn the election results, and they’re certainly not trying to subvert our democracy,”
VP Mike Pence electoral vote certification duties facts vs lies Part 2: State legislators request 10 day delay in electoral vote count, Did not ask Pence to change outcome
Over 100 State legislators signed a letter requesting that VP Mike Pence delay the January 6th opening and counting of the electoral votes.
The following is garnered from several news reports:
“On January 6, 2021, you are statutorily authorized and required under the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to preside over both houses of Congress to count and record the Presidential electoral vote count to elect the President and Vice President of the United States. This congressionally set deadline, however, is not the supreme law of the land, and in fact must not supersede our state legislative authority under the Constitution. Moreover, the deadline is not necessitated by circumstances, especially when it truncates the fulfillment of our constitutional duties and our responsibility to the American people.”
“There are extensive and well-founded accusations of electoral administration mismanagement and deliberate and admitted violations of explicit election laws enacted by state legislatures in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin,”
“Therefore, we write to ask you to comply with our reasonable request to afford our nation more time to properly review the 2020 election by postponing the January 6th opening and counting of the electoral votes for at least 10 days, affording our respective bodies to meet, investigate, and as a body vote on certification or decertification of the election. This action can be completed prior to the inauguration date, as required by the Constitution.”
List of original signers of the letter:
NameStateTitleAlexander, JulieMIRepArgall, DavePASenatorBarr, TimothyGARepBarto, NancyAZRepBarton, BrendaAZRepBeach, BrandonGASenatorBernstine, AaronPARepBolick, ShawnnaAZRepBorowicz, StephaniePARepBorrelli, SonnyAZSenatorBorton, KenMIRepBrandtjen, JanelWIRepBrooks, RobertPARepBrooks, RobertWIRepCarra, SteveMIRepClark, DavidGARepCook, BudPARepCox, JimPARepDavanzo, EricPARepDiamond, RussPARepDunahoo, EmoryGARepDush, CrisPASenatorEisen, GaryMIRepFillmore, JohnAZRepFinchem, MarkAZRepGilligan, SheriGARepGliem, BarbraPARepGowan, DavidAZSenatorGrantham, TravisAZRepGriffin, BethMIRepGriffin, GailAZRepGundrum, RickWIRepGurtler, MattGARepHorlacher, CodyWIRepJacque, AndréWISenatorJones, BurtGASenatorJones, JeffGARepJones, MikePARepKasier, SteveAZRepKauffman, RobPARepKeefer, DawnPARepKern, AnthonyAZRepKnodl, DanWIRepLangerholc Jr, WaynePASenatorLigon, WilliamGASenatorMaddock, MattMIRepMagnafici, GaeWIRepMaloney, DavidPARepMastriano, DougPASenatorMeerman, LukeMIRepMetcalfe, DarylPARepMontenegro, SteveAZSenatorMoul, DanPARepMurphy, DaveWIRepMursau, JeffWIRepNelson, EricPARepPayne, KevinAZRepPetersen, WarrenAZSenatorPhillips-Hill, KristinPASenatorPittman, JoePASenatorPullin, KenGARepPuskaric, MichaelPARepRamthun, TimothyWIRepRapp, KathyPARepRegan, MikePASenatorReilly, JohnMIRepRendon, DaireMIRepRigby, JimPARepRoae, BradPARepRowe, DavidPARepRyan, FrancisPARepSanfelippo, JoeWIRepSchraa, MichaelWIRepSilvis, JasonPARepSingleton, PhilipGARepSmith, BrianPARepSortwell, ShaeWIRepThiesfeldt, JeremyWIRepThompson, BruceGASenatorTownsend, KellyAZRepWard, JudyPASenatorWard, KimPASenatorWhiteford, MaryMIRepWichgers, ChuckWIRepWilmeth, JustinAZRepWozniak , DougMIRepZimmerman, DavidPARep
From Breitbart.
“Late Tuesday, 88 state legislators from five battleground states sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence in which they asked him to postpone the opening and counting of Electoral College votes, currently scheduled to take place during Wednesday’s joint session of Congress, “for at least 10 days.””
”The letter was organized Got Freedom, a 501 (c) (4) non-profit election integrity watchdog group that also organized a Saturday phone call with 300 state legislators that President Trump addressed.
“The letter was signed by 88 lawmakers, with more signing on by the hour, and similar letters have been signed by other legislators in the swing states, bringing the total to well over 100 total signatories,” Got Freedom said in a statement released late Tuesday.
“These elected officials are not asking Mike Pence to overturn the election results, and they’re certainly not trying to subvert our democracy,” Phill Kline, spokesperson for Got Freedom, said. Kline also serves as the director of The Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit public interest law firm.
“Rather, they’re simply requesting that they be allowed to perform the role required of them by the Constitution — an opportunity that in some cases has been actively denied by their own governors,” Kline added.
Under the Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Vice President Pence, as President of the Senate, has a specific constitutional role to play at Wednesday’s joint session of the 117th Congress, convened for the purpose of determining whether or not to accept the Electoral Votes submitted by the Electoral College to Congress as part of the process of selecting the next president.”
From Just The News.
“More than 100 state legislators from contested battleground states have asked Vice President Mike Pence to delay by 10 days the congressional certification of the elections in their states so they can have more time to investigate irregularities and illegalities.”
“The appendix, the lawmakers wrote, "provides evidence of a coordinated and structured multi-state effort to undermine state law protecting election integrity."
"We intend on fulfilling our oaths of office by properly investigating and determining whether the election should be certified, or decertified, by our respective state legislatures," the letter added. "Additional time must be afforded for the legislatures to meet and for state legislators to fulfill their constitutional duties."
“Group organizers said more than two dozen other state legislators had confirmed they had sent other individual or group letters asking Pence to intervene Wednesday, bringing the total to 117.”
“Wisconsin State Rep. Joe Sanfelippo told Just the News he signed the large group letter because there are at least three mass illegalities that occurred during the Wisconsin election that have been confirmed since Nov. 3, all instances in which state officials made election changes that were not approved by the Legislature.”
