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In reply to the discussion: Clarence Thomas was 'key' to delaying certification of 2020 election, Trump lawyers said in emails [View all]BumRushDaShow
(145,169 posts)that is why I mentioned AZ & GA as possibilities - particularly for one of the paths where a state legislature could attempt to "pick" the electors based on what they wanted, regardless of the actual voter tally. They ended up with 3 recounts in GA trying to manufacture "votes".
As a note, AZ had 11 electoral votes and GA had 16 (WI had 10, MI had 16, NV had 6, and PA had 20).
The contested states in addition to AZ and GA, were PA, MI, WI, & NV, but all of those latter ones have Democrats for governors and all got bombarded (to various degrees) but would be unmovable...
However that would theoretically not be the case for AZ and GA (which relied on Ducey and Kemp to go along). What partially scuttled their AZ/GA path was that AZ had a (D) SOS and GA's SOS (Raffensperger) wasn't having it.
When the dust settled in the aftermath of the insurrection, there were eventually 2 Electoral "objections" that went forward through the full process of a debate and vote - one for AZ & one for PA - where each had at least one House member and one Senator officially present the (signed) objection. Both were voted down by full House and Senate chambers.
One of the things that has come out the past month is that there were multiple fringe Constitutional legal theories that were being used and it seems almost every one was included in a "Plan A, B, C, etc.".