Reply #17: I recommend working through this thread.

[Nothing Without Hope]

There is discussion and also, especially in the reply "Yes it it is clearly explained here," the actual legal language.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=213256

If you saw Fahrenheit 9/11 you already know more than you think. Remember the sad scene near the beginning when the Congressional Black Caucus Represenatives were standing one by one and protesting the Florida vote in the 2000 election? How they had to sit down because not even one senator would stand with them? Well, that's what this is about. That's why there are so many posts about whether and how many and which senators will stand with Conyers and the other representatives challenging the election results this time. That challenge will happen on Jan 6.

It actually won't take very long, whatever happens. But if senators and representatives stand together, it opens a door. (There are other investigations and the possibilitiy of impeachment, but that's a different story.)