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On Monday morning, the three electoral delegates from Vermont became the first to vote in the electoral college that formally elects the president and vice president of the United States.
Throughout the morning, the results flowed from state to state. Electoral delegates everywhere have voted as they should, on the candidate who won the majority in their state in November, and thus gets the state electoral delegates.
Also in states like Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania, where Joe Biden won by a narrow margin, but where President Donald Trump claims the election did not go well, delegates voted properly for Biden.
An hour after the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a recent demand by Trump to reject the votes of 221,000 voters, the state’s Democratic election delegates voted for Biden as president.
No unexpected voices
After Vermont, all eleven delegates from Tennessee and eleven from Indiana voted for Trump and Michael Pence, and all four from New Hampshire for Biden and Harris, in line with the election result.
Later, all 29 election delegates from Florida voted for Trump, as did delegates in North Carolina, Iowa and Ohio, while delegates from New York voted for Biden.
Michigan followed suit, although the state assembly offices were closed Monday over the danger of violent protests against Democratic delegates.
A Republican member of the congregation, Gary Eisen, said he would not guarantee that violence could not occur and was therefore excluded from the committees he is a part of until the session.
Meet in the state capitals
Electoral delegates in the 50 US states plus the federal capital Washington DC will meet Monday in the state capitals to cast their votes.
Once the votes are cast and counted, they are sent to the Senate in Washington, where a formal vote will take place on January 6.
It is already known that Biden won enough states to give him 306 delegate votes, while Trump won 232. It takes 270 to win the election.
In most places, they respected the rules for infection control, with face masks and double spacing between the rows of benches. In Nevada, the meeting was held at Zoom.
And in some states, like Michigan, there were additional security measures. There the delegates were followed by armed guards.
Rarely with unfaithful delegates
In the vast majority of states, electoral delegates are required by law to vote for the candidate they have promised to support.
In any case, it is very rare for so-called infidel delegates to vote differently, as the delegates are loyal party members nominated by their parties. Hillary Clinton, for example, is one of the Democratic delegates in New York.
In a couple of states, including Georgia and Pennsylvania, Trump supporters who refuse to accept the election result have come together to vote for an “alternative” outcome that they will send to Congress. But it has nothing to do with the formal process.
Usually a formality
The Electoral College is normally just a formality, but this year there is much more attention to the process because Trump still refuses to admit that he lost the election and continues to claim that the elections were marked by cheating.
Some 30 lawsuits against the elections have been rejected in various states, including one that was filed with the Supreme Court. Trump also called the governors of various states and allegedly asked them to install other electoral delegates who would vote for him, against the popular will.
The presidential election in the United States is indirect, and it is the candidate who obtains the majority in a state, who wins all the electoral delegates of the state. Once they have cast their vote in the Electoral College, the election formally ends and the outcome is finally determined.
