Here are the women - Senate aides - who had the presence of mind and courage to transport and keep safe the electoral votes before fleeing the Senate. There will always be villains. There will always be heroes.
Those ceremonial wooden boxes do not contain the only copy of each state's electoral vote count, so had they been left behind, the certification process could have preceded, but perhaps not as quickly.
After electors met and voted in their respective states in December, several copies of the electoral vote certificates were sent to each state's governor, the National Archives, and the local US district court judge in the area.
This definitely was a big help but good to know the election doesn't boil down to pieces of paper in ceremonial boxes.
Can you imagine sending this picture back in time to 2010 with the caption "Senate aides protecting electoral vote results after Trump supporters storm US Capitol"?
Don't even mention the masks, let them fret about how casually that information is ignored.
Mr Rogers said it best, “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news,my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”
TooShiftyForYou on January 7th, 2021 at 20:00 UTC »
Those ceremonial wooden boxes do not contain the only copy of each state's electoral vote count, so had they been left behind, the certification process could have preceded, but perhaps not as quickly.
After electors met and voted in their respective states in December, several copies of the electoral vote certificates were sent to each state's governor, the National Archives, and the local US district court judge in the area.
This definitely was a big help but good to know the election doesn't boil down to pieces of paper in ceremonial boxes.
PM_ME_UR_HALFSMOKE on January 7th, 2021 at 20:18 UTC »
Can you imagine sending this picture back in time to 2010 with the caption "Senate aides protecting electoral vote results after Trump supporters storm US Capitol"?
Don't even mention the masks, let them fret about how casually that information is ignored.
TroyMcClure8184 on January 7th, 2021 at 20:58 UTC »
Mr Rogers said it best, “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news,my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”