Former governors pressed for election certification by the federal December deadline, saying the method “is not open to debate,” in a Tuesday letter addressed to present governors.
“The voters in each state choose electors. It is the responsibility of all state Governors to confirm which candidate’s electors have been chosen by the voters to serve in the Electoral College,” the ex-governors wrote of their letter, first obtained by Politico. That’s carried out, they mentioned, by “Certificates of Ascertainment of Appointment of Electors,” which particulars the successful candidate’s vote tally and the slate of electors.
“We write as bipartisan former Governors with an eye to December 11th. This is the deadline for issuing and sending Certificates of Ascertainment to the National Archives. This is six days before the Electoral College will meet in state capitals across our nation.”
The letter is signed by former Govs. George Allen (R-Va.), Roy Barnes (D-Ga.), Jeb Bush (R-Fla.), Chet Culver (D-Iowa), Jim Douglas (R-Vt.), Parris Glendening (D-Md.), John Kasich (R-Ohio), Ronnie Musgrove (D-Miss.), Roy Romer (D-Colo.), Ted Strickland (D-Ohio), Bruce Babbitt (D-Ariz.), Jim Blanchard (D-Mich.), Tom Corbett (R-Pa.), Grey Davis (D-Calif.), Dave Freudenthal (D-Wyo.), Jim Hodges (D-S.C.), Scott McCallum (R-Wis.), Invoice Ritter (D-Colo.) and Mark Schweiker (R-Pa.).
“While there is much to debate on the campaign trail, we expect all candidates and the American people will agree that this time-honored process during our post-election period is not open for debate,” the letter continues. “It is simply a ministerial and administrative duty.”
Ari Mittleman, the manager director of Maintain Our Republic, which describes itself on its web site as “a non-partisan civic education organization with a unique focus on the unconventional threats facing our election system, and on ways to help strengthen trust in our electoral system,” instructed The Hill that it “spearheaded” the letter.
On the subject of the presidential election, voters in states are literally voting for presidential electors picked by the events of their most well-liked presidential candidate. These electors come collectively “on the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December,” voting in favor of their very own presidential picks, in line with a Nationwide Archives webpage.
Previous to the voting day of the electors, “seven (7) original Certificates of Ascertainment listing the persons appointed as electors,” are produced by governors, in line with the Nationwide Archives web page.
“The Executive is required to issue a Certificate no later than 6 days before the electors meet,” the web page continues.
A number of states investigated pretend elector schemes within the 2020 election.
The alternate electors scheme, spearheaded by Trump lawyer John Eastman and bolstered by different legal professionals, relied on former Vice President Mike Pence to certify slates of Trump-supporting “fake” electors in battleground states as an alternative of the true electoral votes solid for Biden.
Faux electors allegedly convened in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Nevada and Wisconsin, claiming with out foundation that they had been “duly elected” electors from their states.
Former President Trump faces costs in such a case in Georgia.
