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Biden officially earns over 270 Electoral College votes, cementing his victory over Trump

President-elect Joe Biden has officially earned over 270 Electoral College votes from the presidential electors voting around the country on Monday.

Slates of presidential electors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia met to cast their votes on Monday, beginning with Indiana, New Hampshire, Tennessee, and Vermont at 10 a.m. ET.votes shortly before 5:30 p.m. ET. He is set to address the nation on Monday night at 7:30 p.m. ET. Still, the day proceeded remarkably smoothly across the nation. With only Hawaii left to vote, there have so far been zero "faithless electors" who cast their votes for a candidate that did not win their state.and voting for a candidate other than the one they were selected to vote for on behalf of the state, laws that the US Supreme Court ruled to uphold in a July 2020 ruling.

Every state except for Maine and Nebraska allocates their electors with a "winner take all" system, in which the candidate that earns the most votes earns all of the state's Electoral College votes. Then, on the second Monday after the second Wednesday in December, which falls on December 14 in 2020, the slates of electors are set to meet and formally cast their votes. December 23 is the deadline for electoral college votes to be transmitted to Congress. will preside over a joint session of the new CongressThe vice president reads aloud every state's certificate of their electoral votes in alphabetical order.

 

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