• TauZero@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    They said

    Who is they in this situation? Is it the fake electors themselves? The state governor? The state legislature?

    Is the electoral college like an actual place in Washington where electors gather together and vote for president? Did a bunch of people just show up and say “Oh yeah, we are the electors from Michigan” and everyone just believed them? Is there no way to verify who is the official elector because this has never happened before? Or did this happen not in Washington but somewhere else?

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      1 year ago

      A group of people in Michigan is the They in the recent story. Several other groups also did it in other states. Basically, they pretended that they were the electors and signed document designed to look like the official document in order to cause confusion for long enough to delay. It was a stall tactic.

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        Like what document? Who delivered it? To whom? Is there no authentication? When I go to the bank I have to enter the correct PIN before the machine spits out money. Was I doing elections wrong all this time? Was all I had to do to vote for president was to write “I am official elector from Michigan and I am voting for Trump” on a piece of paper with “State of Michigan” logo on top and send it by mail addressed to “Electoral College, Washington DC”?