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Despite opposition from US President Donald Trump, voters across the country cast their ballots on Monday. Joe Biden’s move to the White House is a big step closer.
Donald Trump still doesn’t want to admit defeat. (December 12, 2020)
Photo: Cheriss May (Reuters)
Less than six weeks after the election in the US, future President Joe Biden overcomes another major hurdle before his inauguration: In all 50 US states and the Capital District of Washington, the total of 538 electorates they should meet on Monday to vote on the future president. Vermont was the first state to complete the vote. There, the three votes that the electorate would cast went to Biden.
In the vast majority of states, the winner of the election gets all the votes of the local electorate. According to certified results, Democrat Biden has 306 constituencies and Republican Donald Trump 232. The election results will not be officially announced until January 6 in Congress in Washington. Biden is due to be sworn in on January 20 in Washington. Trump continues to oppose his defeat in the November 3 election. The president is indirectly elected in the United States. The winner is whoever can unite at least 270 voters.
Ballots are sent to Pence
On Monday, each electorate receives its own ballot for the president and vice president. According to the scientific service of the United States Congress, voters then count the votes at their meeting. Various certificates record how many votes each candidate received. They are sent – signed by all voters – to Vice President Mike Pence in his capacity as President of the United States Senate and to other institutions of the respective state and federal government.
Due to the corona pandemic, the electorate in Nevada should not meet in person on Monday, but by video. Biden announced that he would speak on Monday night (local time). Then the last electorate meeting should have taken place in the state of Hawaii.
“How do states and politicians confirm an election in which corruption and irregularities are constantly documented?”
Voting by voters is usually a formality, because the losing candidate often admits defeat on election night. But Trump still claims that he actually won the election and is deprived of his victory by fraud. He wrote on Twitter on Sunday: “How do states and politicians confirm an election in which corruption and irregularities are constantly documented?” Neither Trump nor his lawyers or supporters have provided evidence to back up their allegations.
Voters are escorted by the police.
How heated the authorities think that the post-election mood clears up with precautionary measures in the states where Biden won. For security reasons, the meeting of the electorate in the state of Arizona should take place in a secret location, as reported by the “New York Times”. In the state of Michigan, Democratic voters must be escorted to parliament by the police.
So far, the Trump camp has failed with more than 50 lawsuits against the election result. On Friday, the Washington Supreme Court also dismissed a lawsuit aimed at overturning Biden’s victory in four states. Trump announced in an interview broadcast Sunday on Fox News that he still wanted to continue legally fighting his defeat. “It’s not over,” he said. There are still “several local cases” in the states where his lawyers are taking action against the election result. Trump has no real chance.
The Supreme Court rejected Trump
the The Supreme Court had already rejected a request for precautionary measure last Tuesday, with which the Trump side wanted to reverse Biden’s victory in the state of Pennsylvania. Critics suspect that Trump’s refusal to acknowledge his defeat was an attempt to continue collecting donations from his supporters. Trump’s team is still asking for donations to support the lawsuits. Only from the fine print is it clear that the majority of the funds will go to an organization that Trump could also use for other political purposes.
The responsible US authorities had declared the election to be the safest in the United States. More recently, Attorney General William Barr had said there was no evidence of fraud to the extent that it could change the outcome, thereby causing Trump’s ire. All 50 states and the capital city of Washington have certified their results.
Following the death of Liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September, Trump had pushed to swiftly fill the Supreme Court seat with conservative attorney Amy Coney Barrett ahead of the Supreme Court elections. He also explicitly referred to a possible dispute over the outcome of the elections. Conservatives now dominate the court with a majority of six to three votes. However, the Trump camp’s previous lawsuits have been dismissed by judges regardless of whether they were nominated by Democratic or Republican presidents.
