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‘At Least 140’ House Republicans Plan To Object To Biden Electoral Votes

by mosesman

  • ‘At Least 140’ House Republicans Plan To Object To Biden Electoral Votes
    by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
    Update (1415ET): CNN‘s Jake Tapper says that two House Republicans told him at least 140 GOP members of the House will object to Biden’s Electoral College win.
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    Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
    At least 25 Republicans plan on challenging electoral votes during next month’s joint session of Congress, according to a tally by The Epoch Times.
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    Twenty-four representatives and representatives-elect, who will enter office several days before the session, plan on filing objections. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is the only member or member-elect of the upper chamber to commit to an objection.
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    “You’ve got 74 million Americans who feel disenfranchised, who feel like their vote doesn’t matter. And this is the one opportunity that I have as a United States senator, this process right here, my one opportunity to stand up and say something, and that’s exactly what I’m going to do,” Hawley said on Wednesday.
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    Objections are filed in writing and must have support from at least one member of each chamber. If they do, they trigger a two-hour debate and a vote by the House of Representatives and the Senate. A simple majority in each chamber is required to uphold the challenge.
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    Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told The Epoch Times that the group plans to file objections against the votes from six states, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada. They’re mulling an objection to votes from New Mexico.
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    Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) was the first to announce plans to file an objection.
    “In my judgment, based on what I have seen so far and my own personal experience with voter fraud and election theft by Democrats, in my judgment, if you only could count lawfully cast votes by American citizens, Donald Trump won the Electoral College,” Brooks told The Epoch Times “American Thought Leaders” last month.
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    A slew of members or members-elect have said this week they’re joining the group plotting the objections.
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    “If irregularities exist, we should examine and provide solutions to make sure our electoral process is accurate and represents the will of the people,” Rep.-elect Burgess Owens (R-Utah) told news outlets in a statement. “Millions of Americans across this country are concerned about the electoral process and we do them a great disservice by merely ignoring their voices.”
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