Presidential electors from all 50 states and Washington, D.C. are meeting on Monday to officially cast their ballots for president and vice president of the United States.
The meetings are happening after weeks of failed legal challenges by President Trump's campaign and his allies, culminating in the Supreme Court on Friday swatting down a lawsuit from Texas that aimed to essentially nullify the presidential elections in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and Michigan.
Monday's votes are the next step in the process of President-elect Joe Biden officially becoming the 46th president of the United States. They will inch the country closer to yet another peaceful transfer of power between presidents as the U.S. has done since the 1790s.
Vermont was one of the first states where electors voted, casting their three electoral votes for Biden Monday morning.
In tweets Sunday night, Trump appeared to be backtracking earlier reports that he would accept an adverse Electoral College result, saying, "THIS ELECTION IS UNDER PROTEST." But the mechanisms of the Constitution and its checks and balances continue to turn.
Guide to Monday's Electoral College votes: How they work, how to watch and what comes next
- by: Tyler Olson
- 2020-12-14
- Source:
Fox News
- 12/14/2020
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