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Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin have indicated that a final image could emerge on Wednesday, Pennsylvania has said it could take until November 6, while in North Carolina ballots postmarked for Election Day are accepted until November 12. of November.
A voter marks his ballot at Bloomfield United Methodist Church on November 3, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. Image: AFP
WASHINGTON – The scenario many feared has come true: November 3 has come and gone, and we don’t know if President Donald Trump or Democratic candidate Joe Biden have won the White House.
Here is the current situation and a preview of what to expect.
WHAT RESULTS ARE LEFT?
As it stands, Biden has won 238 electoral votes and Trump a maximum of 213, depending on the states they have won so far.
Barack Obama’s Vice President was buoyed by Arizona’s incorporation in the early hours of Wednesday morning as the two men try to fight their way to the magic number of 270 out of a total of 538.
That leaves the battlefields of Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin up in the air, as well as the easier-to-predict states of Alaska (Republican) and Nevada (Democrat).
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WHEN DO WE KNOW?
Officials in many of the states have indicated how long it will take to count the ballots, with the complicated situation this year by the COVID-19 pandemic that has led to a record of mail-in ballots.
Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin have indicated that a final image could emerge on Wednesday, Pennsylvania has said it could take until November 6, while in North Carolina ballots postmarked for Election Day are accepted until November 12. of November.
But in reality, things remain uncertain. In an open letter to voters, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney asked the citizens of Pennsylvania’s largest city to exercise “patience.”
WHAT CAN HAPPEN NEXT?
While Biden has expressed confidence in his chances, President Trump has gone a step further, already proclaiming victory and saying he will go to the Supreme Court to get his way.
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The Republican said in a speech at the White House that “we want all voting to stop,” which apparently means he wants to stop the counting of mail-in ballots that can be legally accepted by state boards of elections after Tuesday’s election. .
Democrats are believed to have cast more mail-in votes than Trump supporters, and Republicans have already signaled that they will pursue an aggressive strategy in Pennsylvania to have votes that came in after the election nullified.
Tom Wolf, the state’s Democratic governor, responded on Wednesday, tweeting that one million votes remained to be counted. “I promised Pennsylvanians that we would count every vote and that’s what we are going to do,” he said.
The state’s highest court ordered a three-day extension that the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block, but said it could review the issue after the election, and the promotion of new conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett could prove decisive in that decision.
The specter of civil unrest has worried many voters, but it did not materialize on Election Day.
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