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Trump supporters wave flags in front of the United States Congress building in Washington on January 6 – Photo: REUTERS
The United States has turned 6 January and perhaps the news that most worries the American people is the situation that confirms the results of the 2020 US presidential elections in the joint session of the US Congress.
Temporarily summarize the developments according to the following steps from the moment voters vote:
Step 1: On December 14, 2020, members of the electoral college voted to elect the president of the United States based on the results of the popular vote in its 50 states and the District of Columbia. Some American newspapers like CNN Radio said that Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes and Donald Trump won 232 electoral votes.
Step 2: However, in principle, it is not until January 6, 2021 that when the counting of electoral votes is completed in the United States Congress, the above results will be considered official.
The United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate hold a joint session at 1:00 p.m. on January 6 (United States time, that is, at 1:00 a.m. on January 7, from Vietnam) to do this. The President of the United States Federal Senate, now Vice President Mike Pence, presided over the session.
Step 3: Mr. Mike Pence opened the electoral votes sent back in alphabetical order by the states and delivered one of four tellers representing both parties in the US House and Senate.
Stage 4: These representatives, in turn, read aloud the results for each state and officially count how many votes were voted for the Donald Trump – Mike Pence couple and the Joe Biden – Kamala Harris couple.
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin attended the evening meeting 6-1. He is one of a group of members who signed a joint statement on 3-1 asking Congress to approve the results of the vote count to protect the Constitution and democracy of the United States – Photo: REUTERS
Step 5: After a representative reads the results of a state’s affirmation, any member of the House of Representatives and Upper America can stand up and oppose the electoral college votes. that state. For the objection to be approved, the opinion must be in writing and signed by at least 1 Representative and at least 1 Senator. If there is no official objection, the vote counting session continues until completion.
Step 6: If there is an objection like the one above, the election counting session is suspended. The United States House of Representatives and Senate will go into their own sessions to debate the matter for 2 hours and then vote.
If both the US House and Senate vote and the majority agrees, the state ballot is rejected. In contrast, the original ballot is still counted unchanged.
Step 7: Voting on the objection is completed, the general session of the United States Congress will resume, and electoral votes will continue to be counted. The above process it will be repeated each time an objection is accepted.
Step 8: The president (incumbent vice president) announces the results. The presidential candidate who obtains at least 270/538 electoral votes will officially become president.
Have you ever challenged electoral votes?
To have. The last was in 2005, when Ohio Democrat Stephanie Tubbs Jones and California Democrat Barbara Boxer opposed Ohio’s electoral vote.
They claimed that there were irregularities in the election. After that, both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate debated the objection and voted against.
Democrat Maxine Waters of California protested during a joint session to count electoral votes in Washington DC on January 6, 2017 after the 2016 US presidential election. However, at the time there was no advantage. The US congressman protested and Trump officially became president after that – Photo: AP
Since the Electoral Counting Law was passed in 1887, the 2005 incident is only the second time that parliamentarians from both houses have unanimously opposed electoral votes in one state, following the electoral college controversy in the state of North Carolina in 1969.
Who is expected to object?
More than 100 congressmen and about a dozen Republican senators (led by Senator Ted Cruz) said he would challenge the electoral votes of at least one of the battlefield states on January 6.
Republican congressmen were reported to sign documents opposing electoral votes in six battlefield states, including Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence (Speaker of the Senate), is considered to be in a dilemma. Mr. Pence’s office said it “shared the concerns of millions of Americans about voter fraud and recent irregularities.”
Although Trump tweeted that Pence “had the right to reject fraudulently selected voters,” the US Constitution did not grant the vice president any of those rights. The United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate may speak.
The American historian Michael Beschloss considered Pence’s role “purely an announcer, not a decision maker.”
Senator James lankford Oklahoma is one of 12 Republican senators who announced they would oppose the results of the vote count at the National Assembly meeting at noon 6-1.
But there was information that he simply emailed his supporters to explain that he was bound by the Constitution to accept the results of the vote recount that have been endorsed by state governments.
Evaluate preliminary results
Analysts say any attempt by Republicans to challenge electoral votes will be failed Because Democrats have a majority in the US House of Representatives and will vote to reject the opposition. There are still many Republican MPs who have not spoken out on whether they will join the efforts of Trump allies.
