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Voters began voting in the United States on Monday to officially elect Joe Biden as president of the United States, ending the failed attempts by President Donald Trump to overthrow his defeat in the November 3 election, Reuters reports.
Voting ended in several states, with voters generally gathering in state capitals, but Biden will likely only be confirmed as the winner after California, on the west coast, casts his vote in the afternoon.
Current Republican President Donald Trump, who accuses his Democratic opponents of fraud in that election, tried to block the Electoral College vote in Georgia and other key states where he lost the election, but the U.S. Supreme Court rejected him. a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas, led by Republicans. All states have certified the results of the November 3 elections.
According to the results of the November 3 elections, Joe Biden would be voted by 306 voters, well above the threshold of 270 needed to become president, and Donald Trump by 232.
In the United States, a candidate becomes president not by winning a majority of the popular vote, but through an electoral college system, which allocates electoral votes to the 50 states of the federation and the District of Columbia as a whole based on the size of the population.
Although there are sometimes a few ‘rogue’ voters who vote for someone other than the winner of the popular vote in that state, the vast majority only confirm the results in their state, and officials expect nothing different about it on Monday.
The next step in the electoral process will be in Congress on January 6, when the parliamentarians will certify the vote of the Electoral College.
Joe Biden and his vice president, Kamala Harris, will take office on January 20.
So far, Trump has not expressed a desire to meet with Biden, but his administration has begun working with the president-elect’s transition team, writes DPA.
