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About 20 US states have filed a petition with the nation’s Supreme Court in support of Texas’s attempt to overturn the results of the presidential elections in the states where Democratic candidate Joe Biden won. Experts said the Texas lawsuit was contrary to the United States constitution.
The state of Texas filed a lawsuit with the US Supreme Court on December 8, challenging the results of the presidential elections in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. This was reported by Reuters.
In each of these states, Democratic candidate Joe Biden was declared president-elect. The lawsuit was filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is a member of the Republican Party and an ally of President Donald Trump, according to the report.
Professor at William and Mary School of Law in Virginia Rebecca Green stated that Texas has no right to dispute how other states held elections. He noted that this is contrary to the Constitution of the United States.
On December 9, Reuters reported that 17 more states have joined the Texas lawsuit. They support the initiative to cancel the result of the presidential elections.
In the United States, on November 3, 2020, the main vote in the presidential elections took place. More than 10 candidates applied for the position, the main competitors were Donald Trump and Biden. Turnout in these elections was a 120-year record – some 160 million Americans participated in them.
The United States has a two-tier electoral system. After a popular vote, a ballot will take place at the electoral college of each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia (the number of voters in each state varies by population). In most states, the candidate who receives the most popular votes will receive all the electoral votes. According to CNN, ABC News and Fox News, Biden has won the support of 306 members of the electoral college. Trump, according to the forecast of television channels, has the support of 232 voters. To win, you must collect at least 270 votes. The electoral college will vote on December 14.
Biden has already announced that he will be the next president of the United States and several world leaders congratulated him on his victory, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Trump refuses to admit defeat and slows the transfer of power, but on November 13 he admitted that another administration would work in the White House, and on the 24th it emerged that the Trump administration had declared its willingness to transfer power to Biden.
Trump himself, according to media reports, will not welcome the new US president to the White House. Instead, he can travel to Florida to demonstrate against Biden’s inauguration.
The winner of the elections will be officially announced by the President of the United States Senate at a meeting on January 6, 2021. On January 20, the elected head of state will be sworn in.
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