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The director of the Vice President’s Office, Marc Short, issued a statement to the media on Saturday, saying: “Vice President Pence, like millions of Americans, is concerned about electoral fraud and irregularities in the last elections.”
“The Vice President welcomes members of the Senate and House of Representatives who use the powers granted by law to raise objections and present evidence to Congress and the American people on January 6,” the statement said.
Eleven Republican senators in the United States Congress issued a joint statement on Saturday asking Congress to follow the precedent to establish an election committee and conduct a 10-day emergency audit of the controversial election results.
The 11 senators affirmed that voting at the joint meeting of Congress on January 6 is the only constitutional power left to consider and resolve multiple complaints of serious electoral fraud. They will oppose the Electoral College vote until the end of the audit.
Republican senators believe that the allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 elections are more than any in his life, and Americans have this concern.
According to a Reuters / lpsos poll, 39% of Americans believe that “the elections are rigged.” Republicans (67%), Democrats (17%) and independents (31%) hold this view.
It was originally intended that the court would hear the evidence and resolve these allegations of serious voter fraud; however, the Supreme Court refused to accept cases twice.
Asking Congress to establish an independent electoral committee was not the first Republican.
The earliest precedent appeared in 1877, when Hayes made serious accusations of fraud and illegal behavior in the Haye-Tilden presidential election. At the time, three states – Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina – were charged with illegal conduct in the elections.
Congress and the media have paid close attention to these allegations and appointed an electoral committee – made up of five senators, five members of the House of Representatives and five Supreme Court justices – to consider and resolve controversial issues.
Democratic congressmen also questioned the results of the presidential elections in Congress in 1969, 2001, 2005, and 2017. Additionally, in 1969 and 2005, a Democratic senator joined the Democratic House of Representatives and asked to vote in both houses, deciding whether accepted the contested presidential electoral vote.
As of this writing, 12 Republican senators in Congress said they would challenge the results of the January 6 election. Additionally, there are at least 40 Republican congressmen who said they would join the challenge on January 6.
Under the congressional process, if a senator and a member of the House of Representatives object to the electoral votes of key states during the joint session of Congress on the 6th, a two-hour debate will be triggered in each disputed state.
In accordance with the Constitution and the law, the vice president presided over the joint meeting of Congress on the 6th, but the majority of the two houses of Congress still have the power to make decisions on the disputed electoral votes.
Editor in charge: Li Yuan #
