US Electoral College Confirmed Biden’s Victory, But Trump Refuses To Award Victory: Observer

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Joe Biden received the confirmation he was waiting for on Monday: the Electoral College awarded him the majority of the votes resulting from the November 3 elections, nominating him as the next president of the United States. The end result was exactly what was expected: 306 votes for Joe Biden and 232 for Donald Trump.

The first polls started on the East Coast at 10 am local (3 pm Lisbon) and the last ones were in Hawaii, at 2 pm local (00 am Lisbon). See, at the end of this article, the list of states, according to the voting time and the winning candidate.

These results are fully in line with what the results of the November 3 elections dictated, the results of which were officially confirmed by all states on December 8.

In this process, each voter had to sign six certificates of their own vote.. Each certificate will be sent to different authorities: a copy goes to the Senate; two for the secretary of state of the state in question; two for the National Archives and Records Administration, which oversees this vote; a last one that will be in the hands of the judge who presides over the ceremony this Monday.

On January 6 there is a new and important phase: Congress, that is, the summary of the Senate and the House of Representatives, certify the votes of the Electoral College in each state, which will arrive to you from this Monday by mail. Basically, this will be the last officialization of the results. Only then did he Final step of this process: the swearing-in of Joe Biden on January 20, 2021.

This vote comes at a time when Donald Trump’s ways of challenging results are virtually non-existent. On Friday, the nine justices of the Supreme Court blocked the evaluation of a complaint that the state of Texas filed against the results of four decisive states: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia.

Anyway, the president of the United States gave an interview to Fox News this Sunday in which he made it clear that he is not willing to drop his arms for now. “No, it’s not over yet”, said. “We will go on and on. We have several cases in local courts, ”he said in that interview.

In any case, Donald Trump has already said on another occasion that if the Electoral College gives victory to Joe Biden, he will leave the White House. “I will, I certainly will [sair]”, he said, before this hypothesis. However, at the same press conference he rejected that a victory for Joe Biden in the Electoral College would lead him to award the Democratic victory. So, to have faith in your words, even if you leave the White House, Donald Trump will not admit defeat any time soon.

At the end of the night, Joe Biden spoke at 7:30 pm on the East Coast (12:30 am in Lisbon), after the all-state voting ended. “northThe United States is not the politicians who take power, it is the people who grant it “he said, repeating an idea that he had already left in his November 7 victory speech: “It is time to turn the page, come together and heal wounds.

“The flame of democracy was lit by this nation long ago. And now we know that nothing – not even a pandemic or the abuse of power – is capable of turning it off, “said Joe Biden, in a speech that also had some attacks on Donald Trump and his allies, whom he accused of having devised a” maneuver legal “” To “give the presidency to a candidate who lost the Electoral College, lost the popular vote and lost each of the states whose votes they wanted to reverse.”

Joe Biden demands that Donald Trump surrender and stresses: “It is time to turn the page”

It was even speculated that, in the end, the expected result of 306-232 dictated in the November 3 elections would undergo some change. This is because, out of the 50 states, there are 33 that force voters to vote for the winner in that territory, but 17 leave that task in the hands of the designated voters. Therefore, it was possible that there would be some fluctuations in the final results, but it would always be highly unlikely that these voters, designated as unfaithful voters (unengaged voters), change the course of this election.

In the end, all the states voted exactly as expected. – unlike the 2016 election, in which 10 voters chose other candidates, from former Secretary of State Colin Powell to fictional characters.

In total, in the 58 elections that have already taken place in the United States before this one, unconditional voters never reversed the expected result of those plebiscites. In total, there were 23,507 votes in the Electoral College and only 90 were different from what was expected of them.

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Among those 90, only one voted directly for the opponent of the candidate who had his vote. The fact that there are so few concerns primarily one issue: the citizens appointed to vote in the Electoral College are chosen by the winning parties in each state. P

Since they are often people tied to party machines, they are always unlikely to break expectations around their vote. The extreme example of this occurred in 2016, when one of the 29 electoral college delegates chosen by the Democratic Party (who won the election there) was Bill Clinton: 42nd president of the United States and husband of the then-defeated candidate, Hillary Clinton.