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The former vice president said that Trump had made use of every legal avenue available to him in challenging the outcome and that now it is time to accept the results and move on.
“Respecting the will of the people is at the heart of our democracy even when we find those results hard to accept,” Biden said. “But that’s the obligation of those who have taken on a sworn duty to uphold the Constitution.”
“In this battle for the soul of America, democracy prevailed . faith in our institutions held and the integrity of our elections remained intact,” he continued. “And now it’s time to turn the page as we’ve done throughout our history, to unite and to heal.”
Mark Miller during his swearing-in as Kalamazoo Township Clerk.
Credit Kalamazoo Township website
Miller is Kalamazoo Township Clerk and a Democrat. He said this was his first time as an elector. He served as protests took place outside Michigan s State Capitol building in Lansing, where the ballotting took place. That and the state s other capitol buildings were closed yesterday due to security reasons with electors allowed to enter to vote.
Miller said he had no idea demonstrations had occurred until he watched them on the news later. Asked by McMichael if he worried about his safety at any point during the proceedings, he said that law enforcement made him feel protected.
Melissa Agard (D-Madison) released the following statement:
“I am proud that the state of Wisconsin has cast its electoral votes for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. These 10 Electoral College votes represent the votes of millions of Wisconsinites who cast their ballot for a return to kindness and normalcy. Under the leadership of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, the United States will prioritize the issues that matter to the everyday lives of Americans like access to health care, addressing racial disparities, and helping workers recover from the devastation brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. I am proud of Wisconsin for helping elect our next President and Vice President. Furthermore, it should not go unnoticed that Wisconsin just cast its votes for the first ever female Vice President of the United States in our country’s 243 year history.”
How China may be tracking, intercepting Americans phone communications No one in the industry wants the public to know the severity of ongoing surveillance attacks by China on American cell phone subscribers, says Gary Miller, a former mobile network security executive. That s why he told
The Guardian of his concerns that Beijing is tracking, monitoring, and intercepting U.S. phone communications, usually while the user is traveling abroad.
Miller has spent years analyzing mobile intelligence reports and observations of signaling traffic between foreign and U.S. mobile operators. Signaling messages,
The Guardian notes, are commands sent by telecoms operators across the global network, which allow them to locate phones, connect users to one another, and assess roaming charges. But the messages â which are sent without the knowledge of users â can also be manipulated and used for illegitimate purposes like surveillance, Miller said.
Biden says he had a good conversation with Mitch McConnell
December 15, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden has now spoken with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) after the Republican leader acknowledged his election win for the first time.
Biden announced on Tuesday that he had a good conversation with McConnell and thanked him for offering his congratulations following the outcome of the November election. McConnell acknowledged Biden as the president-elect earlier on Tuesday after the Electoral College affirmed his win more than a month following Election Day. I told him although we disagree on a lot of things, there s things we can work together on, Biden said. We ve always been straight with one another. And we agreed we d get together sooner than later, and I m looking forward to working with him.