The process has begun….
The elector’s will cast their votes…
(They began at 10:00 AM EST)
In several states they will actually have police protections…
They will be wearing masks…
Several will have video oversight….
The WashPost link below will feature a updated tracking of the states votes…By 2 PM EST the states that give Biden/Harris the win should have reported in their results…
President-elect Joe Biden will take another step toward inauguration Monday when members of the electoral college gather in state capitals to cast their ballots for president and vice president. The date is established by federal law, which states that the electors “shall meet and give their votes on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December” in presidential election years, which this year falls on Dec. 14.
Normally an afterthought, the vote will be closely watched this year as President Trump has sought to subvert Biden’s victory by promoting baseless claims that the vote was tainted by fraud and pressuring state lawmakers to back alternate slates of electors. No states have done so.
Based on the results of the Nov. 3 general election, Biden is set to have 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232 by the end of the day. Votes are cast by individual electors, who are typically leaders and loyalists of the political party that won the state’s popular vote. Their ballots will be formally counted during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6…
New York Times tracking of the Electoral Votes as they come in..Here
Vermont casts the first electoral votes in the country
From CNN’s Ethan Cohen
Vermont’s electors cast their three votes for President-elect Joe Biden during their meeting on Monday in Montpelier.
These were the first electoral votes cast in the country.
Biden got 66% of Vermont’s popular vote — more than double Donald Trump’s 31% in the state. A Democratic stronghold, this is the eighth election in a row that the Green Mountain State has voted for the party’s presidential nominee.
The meeting of electors is the next major step in the Electoral College process to affirm the general election results.
Electors are required by law to vote for president and vice president on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, which this year is Dec. 14.
Here’s when states will vote today
From CNN’s Devan Cole
The Electoral College meets Monday to cast votes for president and vice president, completing another key part of the election process that will eventually make Joe Biden the commander-in-chief next year.
This year’s process has gained special attention in light of longshot efforts by President Donald Trump to overturn the election results in several key states.
We will be covering the voting live in all 50 states and the District of Columbia today, giving you an inside look at how this critical part of America’s democracy works.
A handful of states begin voting around 10 a.m. ET and the process continues throughout the course of the day, with the last vote set to take place around 7 p.m. ET.
Electors vote at 10 a.m. ET in:
Indiana
New Hampshire
Tennessee
Vermont
Electors vote at 11 a.m. ET in:
Arkansas
Illinois
Mississippi
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Electors vote at 11:30 a.m. ET in:
Delaware
Iowa
Nevada
Electors vote at 11:45 a.m. ET in:
Kentucky
Electors vote at 12 p.m. ET in:
Arizona
Connecticut
Georgia
Maryland
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Virginia
Electors vote at 12:30 p.m. ET in:
Louisiana
Electors vote at 1 p.m. ET in:
Alabama
Kansas
Minnesota
New Mexico
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Electors vote at 2 p.m. ET in:
Colorado
Washington, DC
Florida
Idaho
Maine
Michigan
North Dakota
Utah
West Virginia
Wyoming
Electors vote at 3 p.m. ET in:
Alaska
Massachusetts
Missouri
Nebraska
New Jersey
Texas
Washington
Electors vote at 4 p.m. ET��in:
Montana
Electors vote at 4:30 p.m. ET in:
Oregon
Electors vote at 5:30 p.m. ET in:
California
Electors vote at 7 p.m. ET in:
Hawaii
Tennessee casts its 11 electoral votes for Trump
From Greg Hughes and Liz Stark
Tennessee’s electors just cast their 11 votes for President Trump during their meeting on Monday in Nashville.
Trump won Tennessee by more than 23 percentage points, about 61% to 37%.
Republicans have carried Tennessee in 11 of the last 14 presidential contests.
New Hampshire casts its 4 electoral votes for Biden
From CNN’s David Wright and Adam Levy
New Hampshire’s electors just cast their four votes for President-elect Joe Biden during their meeting on Monday in Concord.
Former vice president Biden won New Hampshire by about 7 percentage points in 2020.
The state has voted Democratic in presidential elections in all but one cycle [2000] since 1992.
Indiana casts its 11 electoral votes for Trump
From CNN’s Holmes Lybrand and Ethan Cohen
Indiana’s electors cast their 11 votes for President Trump during their meeting on Monday in Indianapolis.
Trump beat Biden in Indiana by about 16 percentage points, 57% to 41%. Vice President Mike Pence represented Indiana in the House and served as governor before being selected as Trump’s running mate in 2016.
The Hoosier State is reliably Republican at the presidential level. In 2008, Barack Obama became the first Democrat to win Indiana since Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and only the second in more than 70 years. The state flipped back to Republicans in 2012, voting for Mitt Romney over Obama.
[Current tally so far: Trump 22 electoral votes (Tenn + Ind); Biden 7 (Vt + NH)]
As always ….
Thanks DSD….
Biden should actually go over 270 around 2-3 PM I believe…
Michigan’s GOP House speaker: If I switched electors, “we’d lose our country forever”
From CNN’s Adam Levine
Michigan’s Republican Speaker of the House said the state will not change electors to give President Trump the win, despite the vote, because doing so would “bring mutually assured destruction for every future election in regards to the Electoral College.”
In a statement, Lee Chatfield said “I fear we’d lose our country forever” should the Republicans switch the slate of electors.
“I fought hard for President Trump. Nobody wanted him to win more than me. I think he’s done an incredible job. But I love our republic, too. I can’t fathom risking our norms, traditions and institutions to pass a resolution retroactively changing the electors for Trump, simply because some think there may have been enough widespread fraud to give him the win,” he continued.
Michigan casts its electoral votes during the 2 p.m. ET hour.
1:37 PM EST….
NY Times….
Biden …166
Trump….112
NY Times 4:15 PM
EC Count certified and reported by the states
Biden ….240
Trump ….229
California cones in at 5:09 PM
I believe there are only 4 states left
All of the states Trump & Co tried to turn have reported and certified things correctly…
Trump says he has one last card to play…
But anything he might think he has just is not gonna work…
But he WILL continue to have dummies sending him money….
It is actually a little surprising that a Republican leader would be thinking about the implications of their decision in four years. Republicans do not typically make decisions in which they think of the future (Ignoring global warming, encouraging coal subsidies, opposition to preventive care in health plan, massive budget deficits, etc).
But I’ll take it!
Are we supposed to thank him?
Here would have been a better statement:”I supported President Trump.I thought he did a good job.However,over the past month after I’ve observed
The blatant lies,the scandalous efforts to attempt to change the election results,the frivolous legal proceedings without a scintilla of evidence to back them up,the veiled hints of violence now emanating from a fellow party members of mine and the hate and discord emanating from a party I used to be proud to be a member of,then I feel that the only honorable course to take is to Denounce the Republican Party and President Trump and time resign my position.I will no longer be a party to these outlandish attempts to subvert our system of elections and governance.”
This is all circular, the leadership of the Republican Party told their voters that the vote was stolen, and so now they want to follow “norms.” The Republican leadership (see McConnell and McCarthy) refuse to tell their voters the truth. They are part of the problem.
Outgoing conservative Congressman Paul Mitchell of Michigan changes his House affiliation from Republican to Independent.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/politics/read-paul-mitchell-republican-party-letter/index.html
Retiring is the key wotd here.
Joe Biden just went over the 270 EC number with California’s EC’s
Biden ….302
Trump……242
Harry Enten
Unless something odd happens at the end, Biden’s going to get 306 electoral votes. Trump, because of faithless electors, ended up with only 304 in 2016.
Fake News!
Bingo! 306-232
Hawaii casts its 4 electoral votes for Biden, concluding Electoral College process
From CNN’s Ethan Cohen and Marshall Cohen
Hawaii’s electors cast their four votes for President-elect Joe Biden during their meeting on Monday in Honolulu.
Hawaii was the last state to cast its electoral votes, concluding the arcane process that is laid out in the Constitution. The final Electoral College results are 306 for Biden and 232 for Trump.
There were no “faithless electors” this year, which is when presidential electors vote for someone else other than their state’s popular vote winner. This is a major departure from 2016, which set a record for “faithless electors.” Five Democrats and two Republicans broke ranks and went “faithless” that year.
Biden defeated Trump in Hawaii, about 64% to 34%.
Hawaii is a Democratic stronghold in presidential races. It has voted for a GOP presidential candidate only twice since gaining statehood in 1959 – Richard Nixon in 1972 and Ronald Reagan in 1984.