President Donald Trump’s multilayered effort to challenge the results of the election is expected to culminate on Jan. 6, 2021, when the Electoral College vote count will almost surely be challenged by a group of Republican lawmakers who vow to block electors from seven states where allegations of voter fraud and misconduct have been raised.
The Republican presidential electors in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico cast procedural votes for Trump on Dec. 14, creating dual slates of electors in Congress for the first time since 1960. This year, only the Democratic electors’ votes in the seven states come affirmed with certificates of ascertainment signed by state authorities and are on display on the website of the National Archives.
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Dec 18, 2020 10:00 AM EST
The next president of the United States with the most electoral votes will win. However, only Congress can declare the winner if there is total agreement.
This recent electoral exercise saw one of the most challenging results in several swing states and others that cast their electoral college votes. Results are now under question as to whether they are legal or not. But as they are now considered part of the ballot, they by no means do not make the one with 270 votes the president.
Placing votes in the college, choosing who will be the electors in Congress on January 6, 2021 won t be easy because there is another layer to ensure the rightful winner wins the U.S elections. Once everyone has agreed, the votes will be counted in the Lower House to declare the winner, reported The Epoch Times.
Explainer: Dueling Electors and the Upcoming Joint Session of Congress
Presidential candidates in the United States win elections by winning the most electoral votes.
The Electoral College system apportions a certain number of votes to each state. When voters in a state vote for a party’s candidate, they’re actually casting a vote for that party’s slate of electors, or people chosen to cast electoral votes.
Those electoral votes are counted by Congress. If a candidate gets 270 or more, they win the presidency.
Dueling Electors
In seven states on Dec. 14, a slate of Democratic electors chose Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Republican electors, even though Biden was certified as the winner in the states, also cast votes for President Donald Trump.