Baker, Smith, Kelley co-sponsor resolution asking Congress to refuse electoral votes from six Biden states

 

Attorney General Eric Schmitt is not the only elected official in Missouri ready to meddle in presidential election results in other state.

Twenty-two Republican members of the Missouri House of Representatives including three from the Joplin area have signed on as co-sponsors of a resolution filed today by Rep. Justin Hill, R-Lake St. Louis (pictured) which asks Congress to refuse to accept the electoral votes of six states next month.

The states, Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia, all have been certified for President-Elect Joe Biden.

Ben Baker, R-Neosho, Cody Smith, R-Carthage, and Ann Kelley, R-Lamar are co-sponsors.

The resolution, HR2, calls for Congress to take action if a "full and fair investigation" of the voting in those states is not conducted.

Baker posted the following message on his Facebook page this afternoon:

I have co-signed House Resolution 2, declaring that the Missouri Legislature has no confidence in the election proceedings in 6 battleground states and are asking for the legislatures in those states to pursue investigations into the election fraud. If they don’t investigate then we are asking Congress to refuse the electoral votes from those states.

The bill has been assigned to the House Special Committee on Government Oversight led by Chairman Roger Ross, R-Yukon. Dirk Deaton, R-Noel, serves on the committee. A hearing is scheduled for 5 p.m. Monday.

The full text of the resolution is printed below:

WHEREAS, the President of the United States has immense enumerated powers and serves as both the head of the executive branch of government of the United States and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces; and 

WHEREAS, the election of the President of the United States should be free and fair in order to preserve the legitimacy of the government, avoid constitutional crisis, and promote the general welfare of the people of the United States; and 

WHEREAS, the legislatures of the states are delegated primary responsibility to ensure that free and fair elections for the office of the Presidency of the United States are held under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States which allows each state to appoint presidential Electors in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct; and 

WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States is authorized under Amendment XII of  the Constitution of the United States and the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to independently evaluate whether or not free and fair elections have occurred and to uphold the fundamental principle that the laws governing elections that are enacted by the legislatures of the states prior to the election are fully complied with during the election process; and 

WHEREAS, historically low absentee ballot rejection rates occurred in the 2020 election despite the overwhelming new and unprecedented use of absentee ballots and mail in votes by many different persons and organizations; and

WHEREAS, a razor thin margin favoring Biden was reported in the days after election day in many swing states including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada and political analyst Robert Barnes observed that Trump would win the election if any historical absentee ballot analysis process and rejection rate was assumed; 

WHEREAS, statistically abnormal vote counts were reported in numerous states late on election night and the Biden-to-Trump ratio in reporting was 90 percent or more for some batches of votes; 

WHEREAS, the manifest lack of any absentee ballot and mail in ballot oversight by unelected election administrators shows that the laws passed prior to election day were likely ignored and violated in numerous ways and that this violation was of significant magnitude to change the results for the election of the President of the United States; and 

WHEREAS, in Pennsylvania 23,000 absentee ballots have impossible return dates, 86,000 absentee ballots are questionable, 50,000 votes held on USB cards are missing in Delaware County, and signature matching for mail in ballots has been rendered impossible by the destruction of ballot envelopes; and 

WHEREAS, in Georgia, Matt Braynard's Voter Integrity Project estimates that 20,312 44 nonresidents cast ballots, there is video evidence of the statistical anomalies that occurred when Biden overtook President Trump with 89 percent of the votes counted, and for 53 different individual batches of votes counted, Biden led by the same 50.05 to 49.95 percent margin in every single batch; and 

WHEREAS, a full and fair investigation of the election results, including analysis of absentee and mail in ballot samples for compliance with state election law, is necessary to ensure a free and fair election and should be conducted by Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada: 

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the members of the House of Representatives of the one Hundredth General Assembly, Second Extraordinary Session, hereby have no faith in the validity of the results of the 2020 presidential election reported by the states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that if a full and fair investigation is not completed, that the United States Congress sitting in joint session refuse to accept electoral votes for the office of President of the United States from the states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan,  Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada; and 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the Missouri House of Representatives be instructed to prepare a properly inscribed copy of this resolution for each house of the United States Congress.