• Nougat@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Refusing to certify the election results should immediately disqualify one from becoming Speaker. It should disqualify one from holding any elected office.

    It won’t do either.

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      1 year ago

      I hate Republicans with a fiery passion, but this kind of idea makes me think that if members of Congress aren’t free to choose not to certify an election without negative consequences, there really shouldn’t be a certification process at all. It has about as much meaning as Putin getting reelected with 120% of the vote.

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        1 year ago

        There shouldn’t be imo, it’s entirely procedural by that point

        It’s much more likely that 200 congress people attempt to pull a soft coup and overthrow the government (as many of them did in backing Donald Trump) than it is for the thousands of state level election workers and courts to do the same