# Election Day \[Week\]\[Month\[s\]\] \[Year\] 2020 follow-along thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 3, 2020, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618 "2020-11-03T05:36:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7900
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7900 "2020-12-15T01:58:40Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > This isn’t as harmless as you might assume. At the joint session of Congress to count the electors, the session is required to consider certificates of election from states as well as, “any documents purporting to be certificates of election.” The rules also require that the state-validated certificates must be the ones that are counted, but the mere fact that Republicans will be able to point to two separate sets of electors for Georgia will turn it into even more of a circus. See my OP in a separate thread, in which I ask for some detailed explanation of how this might really work . . . > [@Questions about those alt-Republican electoral slates .](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-those-alt-republican-electoral-slates/928066): > > (Somebody stop me if we’ve done this before.) I have questions about those “alternate Republican electors” who are voting for Trump in states that Biden won. First: Are these the actual electors chosen by the Republican party, the ones who would have gone to vote for Trump had Trump actually won the popular vote? Or are these just a bunch of rogue self-appointed MAGAt nut-cases who are calling themselves “electors”? Second: A question about what happens if these fake electors send their vote… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618)._