As of p. ET, out of the Electoral Votes had been cast. Biden is expected to get votes to Trump's based on the results of the presidential election.
Hawaii is the last state to cast their Electoral College votes, at 7 p. Its 4 votes are expected to go to Biden. The Electoral College votes are formally counted during a joint session of Congress on January 6. Typically, the Electoral College vote is little more than a rubber stamp approval of the November election.
However, the post-electoral government machinery has received more attention than in elections past due to President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the results of the election. For instance, Trump has been personally pressuring Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, to appoint a special session of the state legislator in the hopes of appointing new Electoral College voters — and threatening not to campaign for two Republican Senators that are up for re-election in January. Those two elections will determine which party controls the Senate for the next two years.
Could have been so easy, but now we have to do it the hard way. However, now that the Electoral College votes are cast and affirm Biden's victory, Trump has little recourse to continue to litigate the election results. The Constitution mandates that the Electoral College select the president of the United States every four years.
The number of electors each state has depends on that state's population and is equal to the number of congressional seats and Senators that represent the state.
Political parties in each state pre-determine who the electors before the election, and the party that receives the most votes then has its pre-determined set of electors participate in the electoral college votes. The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The Founding Fathers established it in the Constitution, in part, as a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.
The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors , the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress.
The Electoral College consists of electors. A majority of electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your State has the same number of electors as it does Members in its Congressional delegation: one for each Member in the House of Representatives plus two Senators.
Read more about the allocation of electoral votes. Because the Republican candidate won the State popular vote in PA and TX, the Republican party was awarded 3 more total electors than the Democratic party.
Total - 15,, Democratic votes cast vs 12,, Republican votes cast for the national popular vote, but 55 Democratic electors vs 58 Republican electors appointed based on each State's popular vote. Each State legislature determines how the electors are allocated to candidates.
As of the last election, the District of Columbia and 48 States had a winner-takes-all rule for the Electoral College. Only two States, Nebraska and Maine, did not follow the winner-takes-all rule. Any State legislature could enact legislation that would change how the Governor or Mayor of DC appoints its electors.
So, a State legislature could require that its electors vote for a candidate who did not receive a majority of the popular vote in its State. There is no Constitutional provision or Federal law that requires electors to vote according to the results of the popular vote in their States, so the States may decide to use something other than their State's popular vote results to direct how their electors vote.
If no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the Presidential election leaves the Electoral College process and moves to Congress.
The House of Representatives elects the President from the 3 Presidential candidates who received the most electoral votes. Each State delegation has one vote and it is up to the individual States to determine how to vote. Since the District of Columbia is not a State, it has no State delegation in the House and cannot vote. A candidate must receive at least 26 votes a majority of the States to be elected. The Senate elects the Vice President from the 2 Vice Presidential candidates with the most electoral votes.
Each Senator casts one vote for Vice President. Since the District of Columbia is has no Senators and is not represented in the vote. A candidate must receive at least 51 votes a majority of Senators to be elected.
A tie is a statistically remote possibility, even in smaller States, and would not be known until late November or early December, after a recount and after the Secretary of State for the State had certified the election results. Following the November election, one candidate for a Virginia House of Delegates seat was ahead by two 2 votes. Since the results were so close, there was a recount which found that one 1 vote had been miscounted. After the recount, the candidates had the same number of votes.
Following State law, they drew lots for a winner. The candidates put their names on individual pieces of paper and put the pieces in a bowl. A neutral third party pulled a name out of the bowl and that candidate was declared the winner. A very close finish could also result in a run-off election or legal action to decide the winner.
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