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2016 Postmortem

longship

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13. Again, there are no election redos under our laws.

Reply to pbmus (Reply #11)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 11:30 PM

Dec 2016

Implying that there are is wrong.

There is a very good reason why this is so. In our constitutional republic we have a centuries old heritage of accepting election results.

Now, I could get on board with an argument that this is a constitutional crisis. However, any call for a reroll of the dice has no credible basis. PERIOD!! Our laws do not support such a thing.

Calling for an election redo is at best ignorant of US law.

My question would be simple. How does that work? And who decides?

That's right. There is no way it works. Nobody has the power.

Enough with this utter rubbish.

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Declare Fraudulent Election...Redo Election [View all] pbmus Dec 2016 OP

Who would "declare" this? FBaggins Dec 2016 #1

This is, by necessity, almost impossible DFW Dec 2016 #3

Supreme Court? zenabby Dec 2016 #18

Paper fucking ballots 1 man 1 vote. Fuck you Putin! FUCK YOU PUTIN. lonestarnot Dec 2016 #2

That won't happen. The only thing that could alter it is the electors still_one Dec 2016 #4

That can't happen, but...impeachment can! IF we can get Schummer & Warren to rile up the napi21 Dec 2016 #5

Thanks for the thoughts.. pbmus Dec 2016 #6

South America?? South America??? longship Dec 2016 #8

Madness is upon us...if you haven't noticed already. pbmus Dec 2016 #9

Damn it! There are no election redos under our laws!!!! longship Dec 2016 #10

Then what do you do about a fraudulent hacked election ?? pbmus Dec 2016 #11

Again, there are no election redos under our laws. longship Dec 2016 #13

What is utter rubbish is a fraudulent election pbmus Dec 2016 #14

Again, how does that work? Who gets to decide? longship Dec 2016 #15

Impeachment would have to prove foreknowledge by trump and pbmus Dec 2016 #16

You are ignoring the facts. There are no election redos under our laws. longship Dec 2016 #17

If dems+repubs come together zenabby Dec 2016 #19

Do you actually believe that would work? longship Dec 2016 #21

You can keep calling me ignorant, I am really thick skinned pbmus Dec 2016 #20

Impeachment! That's it. longship Dec 2016 #22

Impeachment with a partisan senate and house.. pbmus Dec 2016 #23

That's it, my friend. longship Dec 2016 #24

It works by flipping the House & Senate... Yurovsky Dec 2016 #26

There is no mechanism for such a thing jberryhill Dec 2016 #7

But wouldn't that be awesome? FBaggins Dec 2016 #12

Can't be done SickOfTheOnePct Dec 2016 #25