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The American voters who began voting formally on the new American Democratic president Joe Biden on Monday confirmed their electoral victory.
UPDATE Tuesday December 15, 12:30 AM. The president-elect obtained enough votes to be declared the winner. California voters gave him the 55 votes he had and Joe Biden obtained 302 votes, more than enough to be declared the winner of the election, since he was designated by popular vote.
To be confirmed as president-elect, Joe Biden needed at least 270 electoral votes.
UPDATE 22:20 Six of the states in which Donald Trump has challenged defeat – Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan – have already voted for Joe Biden.
The president-elect will address the public on Monday evening, after the completion of the voting in the Electoral College.
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The initial news
The first voters to vote were Georgia and Arizona, both won by Democrats in the Nov. 3 elections, Reuters quoted Agerpres as saying.
All 16 voters from Georgia, 11 from Arizona and 20 from Pennsylvania voted for Biden.
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.
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.
Even if there are sometimes a few “rogue” voters voting 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 Monday from this point. of sight.
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.
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