Arizona’s eleven
Republican Presidential Electors have convened to cast their votes
for President Donald to be reelected.
In doing so, Arizona became the fourth swing state casting
procedural ballots for Trump while the states continue to be
contested.
The Arizona GOP said in a statement that “as the legal
proceedings arising from the November 3 presidential election
continue to work their way through our nation’s judicial system,
the Arizona Republicans who pledged to choose President Trump and
Vice President Pence in the Electoral College convened on December
14 to cast their votes and send them to Congress where they are to
be opened and counted beginning on January 6.”
“Of course, there is precedent for our Republican electors
meeting on December 14, even as the Democrat electors for Arizona
also meet elsewhere,” the statement continued. “Democrat
electors pledged to John F. Kennedy convened in Hawaii in 1960, at
the same time as Republican electors met, even though the Governor
had certified Richard Nixon as the winner. In the end, Hawaii’s
electoral votes were awarded to President Kennedy, even though he
did not win the state until 11 days after the electors cast their
votes.”
The state party added that “the legitimacy and good sense of
two sets of electors meeting on December 14 to cast competing votes
for President and Vice President, with the conflict to be later
sorted out by the courts and Congress, was pointed out by prominent
Democrat lawyers Van Jones and Larry Lessing in an essay published
last month on CNN.”
Today, Arizona’s 11
Republican Presidential Electors convened to cast their votes for
President @realDonaldTrump and Vice
President @mike_pence.Read our full statement below
pic.twitter.com/Cn20PcW3D7
— Arizona Republican Party (@AZGOP) December 14,
2020
“Given that the results in Arizona remain in doubt, with legal
arguments still to be decided, just as the Democrat electors met in
Hawaii in 1960 while awaiting a final resolution to the state’s
vote, so too the Republican electors have agreed to meet this year
on December 14 as we await a final resolution of Arizona’s 11
electoral votes.”
Republican Party of Arizona Chairwoman Kelli Ward added that
“it is imperative that the proper electors are counted by
Congress.”
The Electoral Count Act (ECA) of 1887 says each chamber of
Congress will separately decide which slate of ‘dueling
electors’ to accept.
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