By MATT VISER | The Washington Post | Published: December 15, 2020
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On Monday, the electors selected by the United States’ electoral college met and cast their ballots for who their state has picked to become the next president of the United States.
Although US citizens voted well over a month ago in the presidential election, the actual winner is fully confirmed until all the electoral college votes are formally submitted and tallied.
There weren’t any surprises at the vote as Joe Biden was named as the president-elect giving him a clear mandate to become the next president and replace Donald Trump in the White House.
It seems like a lifetime ago that Biden was first confirmed as the president-elect but Trump’s own refusal to accept the results of the election and promote baseless conspiracy theories about voter fraud have made proceedings feel more drawn out than ever.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday denied that voter fraud occurred in the 2020 election and claimed Electoral College victory not long after Republicans in seven battleground states entered dueling slates of electors to be sent to Congress.
Biden made the comments after Republicans in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, New Mexico, and Nevada entered dueling slates of electors. Democrats made the same move in Hawaii in 1960 by sending an alternate slate of electors for John F. Kennedy after the state’s governor certified Richard Nixon as the winner. Congress ultimately counted the Democrat electors.
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Replay Video UP NEXT President-elect Joe Biden achieved formal victory over President Trump on Monday, winning his 306 votes in the electoral college and advancing one more step toward inauguration even as die-hard Trump supporters redoubled their efforts to stop the normal transfer of power. Electors gathered in every state and the District of Columbia for a day-long series of votes that delivered no surprises for either Trump or Biden. The proceedings harked back to more typical presidential elections and stood in contrast with the unprecedented though fruitless six weeks of legal and procedural chaos triggered by Trump’s refusal to accept his loss.