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HPLeft Donating Member (490 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 02:48 PM
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Jump-Starting the Battle
As the evidence continues to mount of irregularities in Ohio, Rep. John Conyers and other House members have announced their intention to object to the certification of the election when the Congress meets in joint session on January 6th to certify the votes of the state electors.

And as you have probably read by now, in order for such an objection to be heard, the objection has to be raised by at least one Member of the House and one Member of the Senate. There are a number of grassroots campaigns underway to find that Senator. A similar effort to challenge the outcome of the 2000 election failed when not a single Senator was willing to stand with the Members of the House who wanted to object; the film of this scene is the heart-wrenching opening of Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

But what happens if a Senator does come forward to join with Conyers and other House members? In brief, each houses then has a short, two-hour debate over whether to accept or rejection the objection, followed by a vote. Then both houses meet together again, and unless both houses voted to accept the objection, the objection fails. (There's a more detailed narrative in Part II, and the text of the U.S. Code in Part III.)

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http://democracycellproject.typepad.com/democracy_cell_project/2004/12/jumpstarting_th.html#more
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ginnyinWI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 02:52 PM
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1. this was discussed on last night's thread

Here is the link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=196204&mesg_id=196204

It is a lot more complicated than what you wrote--and won't neccessarily be put to Congress for a vote.
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