tvc184 Posted January 6 Report Posted January 6 Done deal. There are actually four dates for a president to take office. 1. Election Day 2. Safe Harbor day or the date where a state’s electors must be certified. Basically, any court challenges or recount must be settled within the state by the Safe Harbor date. I think they list the Safe Harbor date as the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December. There are then about 6 weeks after the election to count the votes in any state and settle any issues. 3. Certification of the election on January 6th at a joint session of Congress. 4. Swearing in of the President. baddog 1 Quote
baddog Posted January 6 Report Posted January 6 Finally, a president without “handlers”. I don't feel embarrassed anymore. Border, energy independence, inflation……priorities that will take some time to accomplish. Ukraine cash cow can be instant. Quote
tvc184 Posted January 6 Report Posted January 6 The Safe Harbor date was huge in G W Bush being elected in 2000 when Gore contested the Florida results and asked for a recount. The Supreme Court ruled that the Florida recount was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment. That was because Florida had no standard way of recounting the paper ballots. Was the punch tab counted as a vote if dented, partially punched (the famous hanging chad) or completely punched out? What might be a vote for Gore in one county might be a no vote in another. The Supreme Court voted 7-2 that the recount as undertaken was unconstitutional and therefore invalid. This could be rectified by having a meeting to determine a standard by which vote were counted and to get that information to every single person who had to hand count millions of votes with both a Republican and a Democrat representative, looking at each ballot. The Supreme Court voted 5-4 that it was too late in the process because of Safe Harbor to come up with a standard method and to hand count the millions of votes. The way I read the decision, it basically said that had they gotten together and came up with a procedure of a standard way to recount, it would be lawful. The Gore team argued so long in court by contesting the standard for recounting that they ran out of time because of Safe Harbor. Also, if I remember correctly, in dissent the liberal side of the Supreme Court said essentially, to heck with the law. This is so important that we can simply disregard Safe Harbor. 😝 Law? What law? Anyway, that’s the only Safe Harbor story that I can think of at the moment. Quote
baddog Posted January 7 Report Posted January 7 Finally, a president who can take hard ball questions at a press conference. Unbelievable! And he does it without a teleprompter……and he has yet to take office. Quote
tvc184 Posted January 7 Report Posted January 7 1 hour ago, baddog said: Finally, a president who can take hard ball questions at a press conference. Unbelievable! And he does it without a teleprompter……and he has yet to take office. Or vice president…. Quote
baddog Posted January 7 Report Posted January 7 8 minutes ago, tvc184 said: Or vice president…. I haven’t really thought of VPs giving press conferences. I guess when she ran for president she owed the American people a press conference. Quote
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