Members of the Illinois Electoral College on Monday called for nationwide unity and a full-speed transition to a new administration as they cast all 20 of the state’s electoral votes for Democrats Joe Biden for president and Kamala Harris for vice president amid President Donald Trump’s continuing dispute of the November election results.
Several electors said they were happy to be casting their votes for Harris, a California senator and the first African-American and first woman to be elected vice president.
The socially distanced vote, held in the Illinois House chamber during the global COVID-19 pandemic, was a formality in a state with a winner-take-all system and all-Democratic electors selected for the electoral college, as a result.
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On Dec. 14, 2020, as state electors around the country formalized the results of the 2020 presidential election by casting ballots in the electoral college, conservative personalities such as Antonio Sabato Jr. posted messages claiming that the GOP electors in Nevada, a state that was won by President-elect Joe Biden by more than 30,000 votes, had cast their ballots instead for U.S. President Donald Trump:
Sabato Jr. is referring to an unofficial ceremony held by a group of people pretending to represent Nevada’s state electors in which they cast fake ballots for Trump. This ceremony was unsanctioned, these people were not the state’s electors, and these fake ballots were unofficial.
US election: President-elect Joe Biden clears 270-vote threshold in Electoral College
14 Dec, 2020 10:30 PM
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Nancy Mills, president of the state s Electoral College, noted it was Pennsylvania that put Biden over the 270-vote threshold. Video / KWTX
Nancy Mills, president of the state s Electoral College, noted it was Pennsylvania that put Biden over the 270-vote threshold. Video / KWTX
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The US Electoral College has confirmed Joe Biden s victory in the 2020 presidential election.
Biden cleared the 270 electoral vote threshold today after electors around the nation met and cast their votes.
With all of the states finished voting, Biden leads President Donald Trump 306-232.