"...transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;--The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted..."
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"...votes shall then be counted..."
The votes are counted only after the VP has opened the sealed envelopes. BUT IT NEVER SAYS WHEN THAT HAPPENS, except to say what happens if the House vote that follows a non-majority election is not completed by inauguration day....
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The courts have ruled that Amendment 12 cannot be effectively amended by Congress.
The date "6 Jan" is set, by law, by Congress; VPs have by tradition followed that.
But the authority is left with the President of the Senate, which is the VP.
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WOW!
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Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
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He said to his friend, “If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light, —
One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
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[1] Where is this picture from?
I downloaded it here on taawaa, to investigate it, and by the time I had found INTERESTING THINGS in it, the post had scrolled away.
(Keep reading the thread, it gets good)....
[2] first I cropped it and modified the contrast, to bring out detail....
[3] what I saw seemed to be four different things....
(the pink/purple is false color; the object is gray)
@DoItCueT@Qtah17@RichardGrenell [1] I was on an FBI team that was tracking Osama bin Laden from late September 2001 to sometime in 2009
We had a similar opportunity to kidnap Osama bin Laden and his staff in Sudan, a Sudanese colonel offered to betray bin Laden to us on a remote Saharan highway
Mueller nixed
@DoItCueT@Qtah17@RichardGrenell [2] Mostly I was stateside doing comms for a ratline that started in a refugee cam next to the airportp in Khartoum, went through the refugee community in USA, and from us to the FBI.
(The Sudanese would not talk directly to FBI agents.)
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