Trying to Prevent Illegal Conduct From Deciding an Election Is Not Endorsing a 'Coup'

To Vice President Mike Pence was that he accede to requests from numerous state legislators, including the president pro tempore of the Pennsylvania state senate, to delay the proceedings long enough for the legislatures in the contested states to assess the impact of acknowledged illegality in the conduct of the election.

As the final version of the memo makes clear, the memo's premise was that state election officials ignored election laws, such as signature verification requirements, prohibitions on ballot harvesting, and allowance of observers during ballot counting.

Those electors then cast their votes for President Trump and transmitted those votes to Congress, premised on the assumption that the illegal election conduct might yet prove to have been enough to produce different results and that still-pending election challenges would ratify their votes.

The memo's proposals aimed to prevent certification of a potentially illegal election-and this is what the hounds call "Overturning the election" and urging a "Coup."

It is absurd and dangerous to pretend that anyone was urging the vice president to "Overturn the election" or launch a "Coup." The memo outlined ways to ensure election integrity in the face of significant and demonstrable violations of state election law that, as the Pennsylvania legislators noted, yielded "Election results [that] should not have been certified by [their] Secretary of State." If the acknowledged illegalities that took place in the several swing states had a sufficient impact to alter the results-and evidence from audits in Arizona and Georgia, among others, points in that direction-then it simply must be acknowledged that the analysis in the memo was designed to prevent an unconstitutional election, not overturn it.

In these extraordinary, hyperpartisan times, Democrats, anti-Trump Republicans, and their chorus in the corporate media will grab on to any hook to further the narrative that there is "No evidence" to support Trump's claims of illegal actions in the last election, but the fact is that there is extensive evidence.

Legitimate votes, to count? These and the numerous other election irregularities deserved-and still deserve-a full airing if the American people's faith in our election system is ever to be restored.

https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/30/trying-to-prevent-illegal-conduct-from-deciding-an-election-is-not-endorsing-a-coup/