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Question...Can any representative object to a states electoral college votes if they are from a different state? ?

ie..can Ted Cruz(Texas) object to Pennsylvania electoral college votes? Or does both objections have to come from the state reps in order for the debate to trigger?

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  • Anonymous
    3 months ago

    Kys before someone else can, jogger.

  • Jeff D
    Lv 7
    3 months ago

    Yes.  For example, in 2005 then-Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, and then-Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., together challenged George Bush’s victory in Ohio on grounds of alleged voter irregularities.

  • Tmess2
    Lv 7
    3 months ago

    There is no requirement that the Senator and Representative be from the state to which they are objecting.  While that might be a good change to make to the Electoral Count Act, it's not what the Act says.  

    (If you had to be from the state, the only states that would get a valid objection would be Georgia -- with Ms. Loeffler still being in the Senate tomorrow despite the results of today's election as that election will not be certified until the 22nd -- and Wisconsin.)  

  • Anonymous
    3 months ago

    They can object all they want. It won't change the votes. Fascism hasn't taken over yet.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 months ago

    It doesn't matter if they could, it doesn't mean anything to the confirmation.

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