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Returning votes to a state to check in with the state and see _IF_ they want to substitute a different slate of electors was a perfectly legal action at the time. They created a new act in 2022 to make that illegal called "Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022".

Are you implying some kind of collective punishment that Trump is somehow responsible for what everyone of a certain political alignment says?

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Are you claiming that seven Republican state chairs decided to send "alternate electors" to DC, even though they lost all the relevant recounts and court cases, without at least Trump's approval? I can't prove you're wrong, but I don't buy it.

What I can say with certainty is that, when Trump pressured Pence to certify the alternate electors in spite of losing the recounts and court cases, that's not legal, and that's on Trump.

No. I'm saying until 2022, the legal and legitimate role of The Senate has always been to decide if questions or anomalies exist and re-query any or all of the several states.

I would point out, encouraging someone to perform a perfectly legal act itself is a perfectly legal act. You might not like it, but it's not illegal.

> legal and legitimate role of The Senate has always been to decide if questions or anomalies exist and re-query any or all of the several states

This is the theory of a few crackpot lawyers and is patently false. That is why Mike Pence did not go along with it, he listened to qualified lawyers and his son. This is more of the manipulation you have been under by the people you revere.

Actually it was a matter of law prior to the law being rewritten in 2022.

The constitution has not been changed (w.r.t. this topic), that's where control and duty over elections is spelled out.

You need to find some better sources of information and recognize the propaganda

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