agip wrote:
the trumpists are trying to stall until the electoral college meets. Remember that. They don't mind losing case after case because their goal is not just to toss votes for Joe, it is to prevent the EC from getting to 270.
With that in mind, they lost another one. Trumpists, come back into the light. Stop this.
The EC would work the following way if a state did not cast electoral votes, or Congress decided to thrown them out because there were two conflicting set of votes provided. The method is the same way the Senate works when senators chose not vote.
If all states and DC cast votes then 270 of 538 votes are needed to win (over 50%).
If a state with 20 votes is out of the math then 260 of 518 votes are needed to win.
To drive over 50% means that EC votes in Biden states would have to add up to 75 or greater. Biden would be at 231 votes with Trump at his 232 he currently has and that cannot be increased "swinging" a state over to his side.
Trump would stop 6 Biden states for having their EC votes counted, and that is juts not going to happen. If Trump even managed to kill the EC votes for a single state then it means the Electoral College needs to be dumped because a more intelligent bad actor than Trump could in the future overthrown an election by manipulating the EC.
Here are the six states Trump would need to kill off. They are ranked by voting gap with the smallest gap first and largest gap last (increasing level of difficulty).
AZ (11 EC votes, Biden +11k votes),
GA (16 , Biden +12k),
WI (10, Biden +21k),
NV (6, Biden +33k),
PA (20, Biden +81K)
MI (16, Biden +154k)
The above totals to 79 EC votes.