Everyday we have a new cockamamie Trump & Co. effort to stop or even change the election vote results from 12 weeks ago…
(Voter suppression didn’t work…So now we get efforts to actually discard the votes)
They ALL: have been shut down….
The latest is today…
No matter….
The states are on schedule to have their the results of over 150 million votes certified to be counted together, to announce that Joe Biden HAS been elected by a majority of Americans ,and a majority of states….
Democracy still works….
Donald J. Thump will be out of a job in 62 days….
As President Trump and his Republican allies continue trying to undermine the election, the certification of the vote totals in each state is the next major step in formalizing President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory.
A key part of the G.O.P. strategy has been to delay certification processes in battleground states that Mr. Biden won, in the hopes that, if state officials miss their deadlines, legislators will subvert the popular vote and appoint pro-Trump slates to the Electoral College. But that’s extremely unlikely to happen….
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Monday, Dec. 14
Electors will meet on Dec. 14 in their respective states and cast their votes. This vote is, constitutionally, what determines the next president.
Mr. Biden has 306 electoral votes to Mr. Trump’s 232. Many states formally require their electors to vote for the candidate they pledged to vote for, generally the winner of the state’s popular vote. Historically, rogue electors have been few and far between, and have never altered the outcome.
Wednesday, Jan. 6
Congress is ultimately responsible for counting and certifying the votes cast by the Electoral College, and it is scheduled to do so on Jan. 6.
If there are still disputes at this point — if Republican legislators in a state were to appoint a pro-Trump Electoral College slate in opposition to voters’ will, for instance, and the Democratic governor of the state were to appoint a pro-Biden slate — it would be Congress’s job to resolve them. Election law experts say that under federal statute, the governor’s slate should be favored….
More.... including the date for the important states to announce their certification of their vote….
The Associated Press (which, as the Western Press Association, told the nation of Zachary Taylor’s election in 1848) has just called Georgia for Biden & Harris.
Tell me if this link for the AP’s call in Georgia works for you; it might be personalized for me
This confirms Biden’s “Electoral College landslide” at 306-232 (before faithless Electors mess up the statistics).
In theory, Trump would have to corrupt or intimidate the GOP legislative caucuses in both Pennsylvania (20) and Michigan (18), or in some other combination of at least 3 Biden states into certifying an alternate Trump-Pence slate of Electors to have a chance of winning or tying the Electoral College. If a state’s election authorities (e.g. the Governor, Secretary of State or board of canvassers) still send the votes of the original delegation chosen by popular vote, Congress would have to choose which set to count. This happened in 1876, when three reconstructed states (Fla, La & SC) each certified delegations for both Hayes and Tilden, ‘ while in Oregon, one elector was replaced after being declared illegal for being an “elected or appointed official” ’ [Wikipedia]
Yup DSD….
Thanks….
Slight correction: Trump needs to flip or reflip at least three Biden states, since Michigan has only 16 electors (I was confusing them with Ohio’s 18).
Reflipping Pennsylvania (20) + Michigan (16) = 36 electors, reducing Biden’s 306 to a still-winning 270 and increasing Trump’s 232 to a just-losing 268.
Trump could throw the election into Congress by reflipping Arizona (11) + Wisconsin (10) + Georgia (16) = 37 electors, producing a 269-269 tie.
If the House, in such a bizarre and unlikely scenario, were to declare (as in 1800) that no candidate had won a majority — and doesn’t follow the path of 1876 by appointing some kind of commission — then each state’s House delegation would each cast one vote for President. Out of 50 states’ delegations, 26 are predominantly Republican, 23 are predominantly Democratic and Pennsylvania’s is split 9-9.
Legislative balances in swing Biden states (from Wikipedia):
Arizona (11 Electors)
R 17-13 Senate; R 31-29 House
R Gov. Doug Ducey
Nevada (6)
D 13-8; D 29-13
D Gov. Steve Sisolak
Georgia (16)
R 35-21; R 105-75
R Gov. Brian Kemp
Pennsylvania (20)
R 28-22; R 110-93
D Gov. Tom Wolf
Michigan (16)
R 22-16; R 58-52
D Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
Wisconsin (10)
R 19-14; R 63-36
D Gov. Tony Evers
Ain’t gonna happen….
And the Supreme’s ruled against faithless electors …..
It’s the reason I said Biden had to win by a margin….
Not close….