Challenge to the Electoral College vote needs YOUR help! Contact your U.S. Rep and Senator today!
January 5, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A number of Republican U.S. Senators claim that the Constitution prevents them from challenging suspect slates of Electors. But is this true?
Senator Tom Cotton stated, “Under the Constitution and federal law, Congress’s power is limited to counting electoral votes submitted by the states.” There are roughly 25 Republican U.S. Senators who appear reluctant to support an electoral vote challenge.
But the principal author of the Fourteenth Amendment, Republican Congressman Jonathan Bingham (OH), and the father of the Republican Party, President Abraham Lincoln, clearly explained that state legislatures and Congress have a joint responsibility to verify the authenticity of the certification of electors and electoral votes.
The Republican Congress on February 8, 1865, passed Joint Resolution, HR 126, which “declared that Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee were in, ‘such condition on the eighth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, that no valid election . . . was held’ and that these states were not entitled to representation in the electoral college.” (Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 8, page 271)
President Lincoln agreed
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