If one-fifth of a quorum of senators request it, the Senate will take a roll-call vote. "And if they think their popular vote, their vote on Election Day, doesn't actually make that decision, I think it's just going to cause a challenge for participation and people’s faith in the system.The Senate votes on bills, resolutions, motions, amendments, nominations, and treaties in a variety of ways. “I do think that it can diminish people's faith in the process, and it could diminish the engagement, and I want more people voting," she adds. “I think the biggest question is, ‘Do voters feel like when they cast their ballot on Election Day, it is a deciding factor in who represents them?’ In every other election, it is, because it is that popular vote that's the determiner,” Dacey says. Bush won the Electoral College but narrowly lost the popular vote to Democrat Al Gore. The same occurred in 2000, when Republican George W. President Trump won the Electoral College in 2016 but lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton. 26, 2016, in Hempstead, N.Y.ĭacey thinks complications could arise if the winner of the popular vote doesn’t also win the Electoral College. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, stands with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton before the first presidential debate at Hofstra University, Sept. I think that will be very problematic for the status of democracy in the United States … I mean, that’s not a democracy anymore.” “I think that it would be very extreme if the Senate is going to take an action that really cancels the will of the people. “This is uncharted territory and I hope we don't get to that because you really are overhauling years of democratic norms and procedures,” Merivaki says. Whether or not objections will be filed in the aftermath of the 2020 election is yet to be known, but President Donald Trump has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud related to mail-in voting. There were objections to some Electoral College votes in 19, but the House and Senate rejected the objections and the votes in question were counted. The process is ordinarily ceremonial, but there can be objections. 6, 2021, when Congress meets to count the electoral votes and officially certify the winner. The final step in the process occurs on Jan.
Once that is done, the Electoral College has no further duties until the next presidential election. Senate, the National Archives and state officials. The electors in each of the states complete Certificates of Vote and send them to the U.S. 14.įILE - The U.S National Archives building in Washington, D.C. This must occur on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. to formally cast their votes for president and vice president. The electors then meet in their state capitals - the District of Columbia’s meet in D.C.
Archivist, the head of the National Archives. Copies of this list, known as the Certificate of Ascertainment, are submitted to the U.S.
#WHEN WILL THEY ANNOUNCE THE WINNER OF THE ELECTION PLUS#
Once the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, tally the in-person, mail-in and provisional ballots, each state governor draws up a list of electors. So it will make the job of election officials and the states harder as they try to keep the process transparent and fair.” possibly, many are going to start suing the states because they expect the results to be announced on election night. “Pushing for the election to be called on election night will create more confusion and will create distrust and. “These are legal procedures that have to be followed,” says Lia Merivaki, assistant professor of American Politics at Mississippi State University.
FILE - A poll worker wears personal protective equipment as she monitors a ballot drop box for mail-in ballots outside of a polling station during early voting, in Miami Beach, Florida.
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