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The US states of Pennsylvania and Michigan are preparing to certify, this Monday, the results of their presidential elections that gave the victory to the candidate of the Democratic Party Joe Biden. The deadline for confirming the results in states where President Donald Trump complains about fraud ends early next week, and after that it will be virtually impossible to stop Biden’s inauguration.
Joe Biden’s vote-counting advantages have been on the rise since the night of November 3, and nationally the Democratic Party candidate already has six million more votes than Trump, for a total of nearly 80 million.
While there are still two to three million ballots left, Biden is sure to be elected with more than 80 million votes, a new record for a candidate in the U.S. presidential election since 1789, and ten million more than he received. Barack Obama. in their historic November 2008 elections.
By comparison, Donald Trump was elected in 2016 with a national total of just under 63 million votes. This year, Trump received 10 million more votes than four years ago, and he also sets a new record: he is the loser with the most votes in American history and the second-highest-voted candidate in history, behind Biden.
Electoral College
But the American electoral system is different from what Europeans are used to, even in Portugal, where the president is elected by direct vote of the voters.
In the United States, election night is just the first step towards a long marathon towards inauguration day, in this case January 20, 2021. In the middle is the Electoral College, a process by which each state indicates to the US Congress that was the winner of the respective presidential elections.
After the results are announced by the main news agencies and television channels (which have offices dedicated to the collection of electoral information throughout the country, which are generally accurate in their projections), the official certification begins several days or weeks later in each of the 50 states: first with the certification of the results by each of the counties in each state, and then with the certification of these gross results by the respective state panels.
And this is where the process is, when the eye is on the decisions of the panels of the states where Donald Trump denounces electoral fraud: Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada, with a total of 79 university votes. Electoral.
The first of these states to close the door on Trump was Georgia, where a Democratic nominee was no longer the highest voted since Bill Clinton in 1992.
On Friday, Georgia Governor Republican Brian Kemp certified the results and now has until Dec. 8 to nominate the top 16 voters who represented Joe Biden in the presidential election. These voters will meet on December 14 to confirm their vote in Biden; and the last step is taken on January 6, with the reading and certification of these Electoral College votes by the United States Congress.
Trump’s election campaign called for a vote recount in Georgia on Saturday, within the legal deadline after the results were certified. But no changes are expected: after a first audit last week, in which the nearly five million votes were counted by hand, no discrepancies were found that would jeopardize Biden’s victory, which would have to happen if there had been electoral fraud using the manipulation of voting machines.
And the count requested by Trump will be done using the same machines that were at the beginning of the process, which should only reconfirm the current results.
Doubt in Michigan
After Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan will follow on Monday. If the Pennsylvania secretary of state certifies the results, as expected, after a court ruling against Trump was announced on Saturday, Biden will be just one Electoral College vote away from an official victory.
The question is Michigan, where the score certification panel meets Monday, with an apparent split among its four members. On the one hand, the two representatives of the Democratic Party prepare to confirm the count of the different counties, which gave the victory to Biden; on the other hand, it is possible that the two representatives of the Republican Party vote against and that this marks the beginning of an audit of the votes.
In this case too, it’s hard to question Biden’s victory: It was in Michigan that the Democratic Party candidate recorded the biggest difference compared to Trump in the states that are under the eye, surpassing 150,000 votes. And the leaders of the Republican majority in the Michigan Congress have already said that they will respect the result that is certified, despite pressure from the president of the United States.
Nevada is Tuesday, and the bottom two on the list will certify their results early next week: Arizona on Monday and Wisconsin on Tuesday.
But if Pennsylvania and Michigan (or Pennsylvania and Nevada) certify their results within the next 48 hours, Joe Biden guarantees more than the 270 Electoral College votes needed to be confirmed as President of the United States.
