Why 1960 alternate Electors win Where 2020 Ones Failed

Authorized by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

A November election decades ago produced a clear winer in a hotly controlled presidential race.Yet the popular vote immediatly came under scrutiny in respective states. In one, auditors discovered clear errors in tabulating vote totals. In others, credible evidence of election fraud was uncovered.

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With a court challenge underway, electors from both parts met at a state capital and conducted the electoral vote. 2 certifications were sent to Washington, 1 declaring the Democratic candidate to be the victor, the another nameing the Republican.

The Republican vice president—also a candidate in the race—convened a joint session of legislature on Jan. 6. Without fanfare, he moved to accept the Democratic slate of electors and set the Republican electors aside.

So ended the presidential election of 1960.

The state in question was Hawaii. The vice president was Richard Nixon, who ran against politician John F. Kennedy, and would have had won if as fewer as 11,000 votes spread over 5 battleground states had gone the another way.

Sixty years later, past closely acknowledged itself as Republican electors from 7 states sent alternate electrical certifications to Washington amid allegations of election fraud.

This time the alternate slates were rejected. On Jan. 6, 2021, in a joint session preceded over by Republican Vice president Mike Pence, besides a candidate in the race, legislature certified Democratic candidate Joe Biden the winer over president Donald Trump.

Many Americans have no memory of the 1960 election, and fewer are likelyware of the striking similarities between it and the 2020 election. The Hawaiian election provided the rationale for the alternate elector plan promoted by any associations of president Trump following the 2020 election.

Since last year, criminal prosecutions have been leived against Republicans who took part in the plan in Michigan, Georgia, Nevada, fresh Mexico, and Arizona. president Trump is Facing Related Charges in a Washington national court.

The 2 choices have much in common, yet the cases exhibit key differences that spelled success for the alternate electors in 1960 and defeat in 2020.

Recount in Progress

The first tally of votes in Hawaii during the 1960 election shown Kennedy had won by 92 votes. After a second tabulation of the totals—not a evidence of the balls themselfs—Nixon led by 141 votes.

Democrats petitioned a state circuit court for a recount. But Republican Lt. Gov. James Kealoha, who was acting politician at the time, had no legal authority to reopen the balls or invalidate the results. So he certified Nixon as the winer.

Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy and reporters neglect the results of the second circular of the presidential election, in Hyannis Port, Mass., on Nov. 8, 1960. (-/AFP via Getty Images)

After an first audit, a justice ordered a full evidence of the state’s balls on Dec. 13, 1960, just six days before the electoral vote.

That court order was cruel to the success of Hawaii’s dual elector plan due to the fact that it placed the result of the popular vote in legal limbo. While a winer had been certified, a state court had taken action that might lead to a different result.

Lawsuits were besides filed to challenge respects of the 2020 election. 1 was counting in Georgia, and 1 was remained under appeal in Michigan, though the Michigan ultimate Court refused to Halt certification of the popular vote on Dec. 9, 2020.

However, there was no court order in any state and no action by a state government is mandates a evidence or to hold the certification of the election.

State-Certified Electors

In 1960 the ongoing evidence created a dilemma for Hawaii’s acting governor. If only the Republican electors voted, Nixon would carry Hawaii even if Kennedy was later found to have won the most votes.

Yet national law establishes the date for the electoral vote as “the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December” following the election. If there were no vote on Dec. 19, 1960, the brand-new state of Hawaii would miss out on its first presidential election.

So with the evidence in progress, both sets of Hawaii electors met at Iolani Palace, the seat of the Hawaiian government. They voted for their comparative candidates 1 minute apart. Kealoha signed 2 certificates of certification and sent them to Washington.

A certificate of certification states the elector candidates pledged to a presidential candidate and the full number of votes received. The electors for the candidate who received the most votes are “elected” as presidential electors from their state.

A separate document, the electoral ballot, states the result of the electoral vote for that state.

The certificate of certification is simply a second crucial difference between the 1960 and 2020 cases.

To be sure, any of the 2020 electors knew about the Hawaiian case and utilized it as a rationale for their efforts. The Pennsylvania Republican organization is released a press release stationing as much.

“Today’s decision by the Republican organization electors is fashioned after the 1960 Presidential election, in which president Nixon was declared the winer in Hawaii,” the Dec. 14, 2020, release stood.

Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist opens the state’s electoral college session at the state Capitol in Lansing on Dec. 14, 2020. (Carlos Osorio-Pool/Getty Images)

“While politician legal challenges were waiting, Democratic presidential electors met to cast a generic vote for John F. Kennedy to preserve their intent in the event of future favorable legal outcomes.”

In 2020, Republican electors in Pennsylvania and fresh Mexico added generic language to their vote certifications, saying they were filed “on the knowing that it might later be determined that we are the twice-elected and qualified Electors for president and Vice president of the United States of America” from their respectable stations.

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