The reading of Electoral College votes on Jan. 6 will be a major point of demonstrations, both in the Joint Session of Congress and in Washington, D.C. generally, against the corrupted November electoral process. There appear to be at least 25 committed Representatives; Rep. Adam Kinzinger told an interviewer he thinks the majority of House Republicans will protest (Kinzinger opposes this). One of them, Representative-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) named Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Nevada as states whose electoral votes will be contested.
Outside in the capital, at least four and perhaps as many as six organizations will be demonstrating on that day to “stop the steal,” based on requests for permits.
On Dec. 30, some 27 Republican Pennsylvania legislators wrote to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell asking him to “dispute the certification [of Pennsylvania’s electors] until an investigation is completed” into election fraud. “Without a thorough investigation into these allegations, the certification of the Pennsylvania election results is suspect at best,” they wrote, as reported by Newsweek Dec. 31. Citing many patterns of fraud, fraud-prone voting or vote-counting, they said actions taken by the State Supreme court and Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, who has refused an investigation, “were so fraught with inconsistencies, improprieties and irregularities that the results for the office of President of the United States cannot be determined in our state.”
This is the third such letter that GOP state legislators in Pennsylvania have sent in December, thus far without taking action on their own authority to appoint; it will undoubtedly be used as a flank in the Jan. 6 Congressional debate.
