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It’s considered a mere formality, but it can make America’s presidential election soap drag on. The House of Representatives and the Senate will meet next Wednesday to certify the votes of the Electoral College. The Senate ceremony, chaired by the vice president, serves to validate the votes of the delegates and is traditionally a mere procedure without direct influence, but in times of democratic crisis in the US anything can happen.
Even a group of 11 Republican senators announced this Saturday that they will not certify the votes of the states where the results were contested by Trump.
Josh Hawley was the first to publicly voice this decision, but he was soon joined by ten other Trump loyalists, led by influential Ted Cruz. “Congress should immediately appoint an electoral commission, with full authority to investigate the” alleged “electoral fraud,” they argue.
According to them, this commission, which they believe should be created, “will carry out a 10-day emergency audit of the results in the states” in which the electoral struggle was tighter and in which Trump neither accepted nor acknowledged defeat.
If this audit is not carried out, the Republican senators guarantee: “On January 6 we will vote to reject the voters of these disputed states.”
Even so, the group of insurgent senators acknowledges in a statement: “We are not naive. We know that most, if not all Democrats and perhaps some Republicans will vote differently. “
The Electoral College gave Joe Biden the victory, with 306 votes, compared to 232 for Donald Trump.
