How should you respond if you consider the election to be illegitimate? Four options and a biblical path forward
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 9 December 2020
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR DECEMBER 9, 2020
More than one in four Americans think the presidential election was illegitimate. Today's podcast considers four options for those who agree, then we focus on biblical and early Christian precedents that point the way forward for believers.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.3 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:20.4 | Republican state officials in Texas sued Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania |
| 0:25.6 | in the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday. |
| 0:28.6 | Their suit alleges that the four states acted unconstitutionally by changing their voting rules |
| 0:34.6 | to expand access amid the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 0:38.1 | Forbes cites experts, however, who claim that the lawsuit is nearly certain to fail. |
| 0:44.3 | Meanwhile, the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election were finalized yesterday under what is |
| 0:50.5 | called the Safe Harbor deadline. |
| 0:52.9 | This law declares that any completed and certified vote count made at least six days before |
| 0:58.5 | the time fixed for the meeting of the electors shall be conclusive and shall govern in the |
| 1:03.7 | counting of the electoral votes as provided in the Constitution. |
| 1:08.4 | According to federal law, those voting in the Electoral College shall meet and give |
| 1:13.0 | their votes on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. This year, the specified |
| 1:19.1 | date falls on December 14th, six days before December 14 was yesterday. However, court challenges |
| 1:27.4 | continue. The Supreme Court refused to request yesterday |
| 1:31.3 | from Pennsylvania Republicans to overturn the state's election results. Some Republicans in Congress |
| 1:37.5 | are urging President Trump not to concede the race, even assuming Joe Biden wins the electoral |
| 1:43.4 | college next Monday, asking him to take |
| 1:46.2 | the battle to the House floor in January. They believe Congress should consider overturning the |
| 1:51.9 | election results because of allegations of fraud. According to a Reuters' opinion poll, |
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