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Bart Gellman on Trump's Next Coup

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What Happens if a State Successfully Gets Congress to Count the Wrong Votes?

Under certain circumstances based on the ambiguities and failures of the electoral count act, with republicans in control of both houses of congress, that's exceedingly unlikely. If there are duelling slates of electors, the republican controlled congress is either going to accept the republican electors, or it's going to throw out electors from all the states that have duelled slates - which will leave nobody with 270 electro s. And then under the twelfth amendment, the election is thrown to the house of representatives. Its vote state by state. Each state gets one vote based on the composition of its of its state delegation. Right now, even without republics in control of the house, republicans

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