The other point about the houses setting rules for this quadrennial matter is that neither the 12th Amendment nor the Electoral Count Act establishes what manner of vote must prevail to approve objections to the electoral college slates. Simple majority? 2/3rds? 3/4s?The state of our democracy: If Democrats had just 5 fewer seats in the House, Republicans would be trying to pull off a real coup right now https://t.co/7qKmD7vmhk
— Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) December 31, 2020
Congress does get to decide its rules. Don’t doubt the power of that.
It's been one of the lessons of the past four years, watching things here and in other quasi-democratic countries how there is no such thing as a perfectly safe democratic form of government. That said, ours is particularly terrible, producing winners who lose elections, corrupted elections, rigged districts, etc. The old temptation to say that a parliarmentary system would be better is disproved by Britain and some other countries. The idiotic Swedish handling of Covid really did a lot to dispel the lefty fantasies about that being a land of enlightened, semi-socialist bliss. I had my doubts about it grow over the years but their Covid-19 irresponsibility really forced me to admit what a myth that was. I think it actually was reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo that really convinced me its culture was pretty degenerate.
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