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Suppose the entire election is found to be Void and Invalid due to pervasive Fraud?

I'm no Constitutional scholar, but what little I know tells me there is no clear solution.

So, what do you think?

Cheaters concede?
Revolution?
Election Do-Over?
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If a country wanted to remain a democracy the only solution would be to re-run the election with greater supervision.
Uachtarain · 26-30, M
@hartfire In other words "re-run an election until we get the results I wanted"...
Frank52 · 70-79, M
@hartfire No-one has shown any legal reason for doubting the supervision this time round. Only suspicious sore losers are moaning.
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Frank52 · 70-79, M
@PainfulTruth None of this has shown any legal proof in front of a judge. 'What are the chances...' is no evidence.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Frank52 vote early, vote often
Frank52 · 70-79, M
@sunsporter1649 Vacuous slogans are not legally admissible as evidence.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Frank52 And the houston astros won the world series, right?
Frank52 · 70-79, M
@sunsporter1649 [i]Non sequiturs[/i] are likewise unlikely to impress in court.
@Uachtarain No. Please note, I used the proviso "with greater supervision."
I believe the courts' decisions that Trump's lawyers were unable to produce evidence of fraud.
If there was any fraud it was insufficient to alter the outcome.
So if the elections were re-run under even closer scrutiny, the result would be highly likely to be the same.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Frank52 It's your country, run it as it pleases you
Uachtarain · 26-30, M
@sunsporter1649 Do you literally have nothing else to say except for copy and paste crap?
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Uachtarain Run your country any way you please, The Constitution is no longer valid, 9 dudes in black now run the country. Have fun!
Uachtarain · 26-30, M
@hartfire Why would the election need to be run again? There was never any question of fraud (except for the minuscule amounts found in all elections). But Trump is able to speak to a certain section of the population with such vehemence and charisma that he was able to convince them that if he lost, it was because of fraud. He sowed the seeds for this months, if not years in advance. The fact that this is even being discussed is because he's got into your head too.
Uachtarain · 26-30, M
@sunsporter1649 More copy and paste crap. It does at least sound as though you've accepted that your Orange God has lost. Are you going to tell me to not bogard that joint now?
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Uachtarain Enjoy your newly found freedom, no more Constitution, no more electoral college, no more cops, no more cars, no more cows, what a grand day!
@Uachtarain I didn't say it should be. I agree that there was no fraud. The judges examined the cases. More than half of them were strongly conservative in their politics, and all found that there was no evidence of fraud.

However, the exact wording of the original question is a hypothetical - so I answered it accordingly. [i][b]If[/b][/i] there had been fraud, then re-running the election with greater supervision would have been the only way to protect and continue the democracy.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@hartfire The mostest perfect elektion on the history of elektions!
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@Uachtarain There is no constitutionally valid mechanism for doing the election over, at least on the presidential level. If for some reason everyone agreed that the election results were invalid, we would have no president or vice-president on January 20, and the Speaker of the House would serve as acting president.
Uachtarain · 26-30, M
@LeopoldBloom I’m sure. But there would be no point rerunning it. There was no fraud, but millions of people believe there was because their president is a liar.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Uachtarain The mostest perfect elektion in the history of elektions!
Uachtarain · 26-30, M
@sunsporter1649 I actually think you're not actually a person. You're a Trump bot who just spouts the same old tired phrases again and again. How many phrases do you have in your memory bank?😴
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Uachtarain You really buying the mostest perfect elektion in the history of elektions! Sucker
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