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In states that have yet to announce the winning presidential candidate, the vote count has not reversed the results for at least two decades.
As President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden “won” each other in the race for the White House, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said they would recount the votes, due to the difference between the two. the candidate is too short and is committed to being transparent in the process.
Gabriel Sterling, head of the electoral system in Georgia, said the state had 4,169 uncontrolled votes, while Biden was ahead of Trump by 1,579 votes. This is a very important state that Trump cannot afford to lose. With 214 electoral votes in possession, without obtaining 16 electoral votes in Georgia, Trump could not muster 270 votes to be reelected, even if he won all the remaining states.
US President Donald Trump speaks at the White House on November 4. Image: AFP.
Earlier, the Trump campaign also required a recount in the Wisconsin battlefield state, arguing that the race here was “too tight,” after the AP and several other outlets announced that Biden had won and won. obtain 10 electoral votes.
A candidate can request a recount in Wisconsin if the difference between the two competitors is less than 1% and Trump is within that range, when the state has counted 99% of the votes. However, the president of the United States is said to have difficulty reversing the results when the difference is up to 20,000 votes.
American history over the past 50 years has also shown that very rarely did the vote count change the winner in elections. Wisconsin had a statewide recount in the 2016 presidential election, when Trump defeated rival Hillary Clinton by more than 20,000 votes. The results of the review helped Trump increase the gap by 131 votes.
In 2011, the recount was also done during the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. The gap between the candidates at the time was about 7,300 votes. After being verified, the gap also narrowed to 312 votes.
In Georgia and Nevada, two key states that have yet to release results, a vote count is not required, but candidates can recommend. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania, the battlefield state deemed capable of deciding this year’s race for the White House, must count whether the difference between the two candidates is within a certain margin. Candidates can also request a recount in Pennsylvania.
However, for at least the last 20 years, there have been no state counts in all three states that have resulted in a change in the overall winner.
In 2004, the vote count was triggered again in a court race in Georgia, when two candidates were separated by less than 400 votes, but then the difference changed only 15 votes. A similar situation occurred five years later in Pennsylvania, when the difference between the two court candidates was 83,000 votes. The final result changed only 281 votes.
Long and controversial elections in the history of the United States. Video: Washington Post.
Although extremely rare, the situation in some elections has been reversed thanks to the counting of votes. In 1974, the state of New Hampshire conducted a recount after two candidates ran for Senate only 355 votes apart. As a result, the parties agreed to hold a new election.
Most recently, in the 2004 Washington state gubernatorial race, Republican Dino Rossi edged out Democratic rival Christine Gregoire by more than 200 votes. However, the vote count again resulted in Gregoire over 130 votes and elected.
As for the race for the White House, the most famous recount took place in Florida in 2000. At the time, former President George W. Bush was less than 2,000 votes ahead of his rival Al Gore. After re-counting statewide votes by machine, and then manually re-counting in some counties, the Supreme Court ordered the process to end with a 537-vote victory for Bush.
“History shows how difficult it is to reverse the results in a statewide ballot where two candidates are separated by more than 1,000 votes,” said Edward Foley, professor of electoral law at The Ohio State University Moritz School of Law. , said. “It can happen, but it is very rare.”
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