WASHINGTON (AP) – Presidential voters are meeting in the United States on Monday to make a formal choice. Biden as the next president of the country.
Monday is set by law for the Electoral College meeting. In fact, voters meet in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to cast their ballots. The results will be sent to Washington and will be chaired by Vice President Mike Pence at a joint session of Congress on January 6.
Voter turnout this year has drawn more attention than usual as President Donald Trump has refused to accept the election and has continued to make baseless allegations of fraud.
Biden plans to address the nation Monday night after voters cast ballots. Trump, meanwhile, is sticking to his false claim that he won the election, but only undermines Biden before he takes office. “No, I’m worried about being the illegitimate president of the country, that’s what I’m worried about. A president who is lost and badly lost, “Trump said in a Fox News interview that was taped Saturday.
After weeks of Republican legal challenges, which were easily overturned by judges, Trump and Republican allies last week tried to persuade the Supreme Court to segregate 62૨ voters for Biden in four states, which may have cast doubt on the outcome.
Judges on Friday denied the allegations.
Biden defeated Trump by 232 votes to 306. It takes 270 votes to get elected.
States: In states and the District of Columbia, voters are required by law to vote for the popular-vote winner. The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the arrangement in July.
Voters almost always vote for the winner of the state anyway because they are usually devoted to their political party. There is no reason to expect any defects this year. Leading voters are Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams and South Dakota Republican Gov. Christy Noime.
Voting is definitely less technical, by paper ballot. Voters cast one vote each for president and vice president.
The Electoral College was the result of a compromise between those who favored electing the President by popular vote and those who opposed giving the people the power to choose their own leader during the drafting of the Constitution.
Each state gets the same number of voters as the total number of seats in Congress: in addition to the two senators, however, there are several members in the state House of Representatives. Washington Washington, DC has three votes, under constitutional amendment, ratified in 1961. With the exception of Maine and Nebraska, states have awarded all of their Electoral College College votes to the winner of their state’s popular vote.
Bargaining by the country’s founders produced five elections in which the president failed to win popular votes. Trump was the most recent example in 2016.
Biden has topped Trump with more than a million votes this year.
And then there’s one more step: the opening.
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