“R.here There is no return when it comes to elections. ”Everything should be done correctly.” America. Perhaps the candidate holds his mandate – Kamala Harris or Donald Trump – probably Take the White House.
When Mr. Schmidt hints to “everything” he needs to do in these elections, it means more than just voting. in Pennsylvania Throughout the country, the voting of decentralization votes and a central process are considered. It may take to know days The result After the election day on the fifth of November. (In 2020, it took nearly four days until the major news organizations Joe Biden announced the winner. Until then, the result will be unofficial even Congress It is attested to on January 6, 2025, showing a series of procedural steps performed by thousands of local and state officials.
Few Americans thought a lot about their elections mechanics until Mr. Trump and his lawyer strongly sought to cancel his loss to Mr. Biden. At every opportunity they tried to sabotage what was considered a long -standing operation for the tumor. Trump’s allies claimed that voters’ fraud in lawsuits, and the strong local officials armed to change the returns and trials and failed to persuade Mike Pines, then Vice President of Mr. Trump, to prevent Congress from emphasizing the result. On that day, Trump supporters looted the Capitol.
If this year’s elections are close as opinion polls indicate, a few other weeks are expected between November 5 and January 6. Mr. Trump is likely to declare victory before calling news networks, and continues to wear and wrong information. Mrs. Harris is likely to work better among the voters who spread their votes, meaning that her wealth will improve with the progress of the count, because counting the postage is usually slower. This happened in 2020 in Pennsylvania, where Mr. Trump’s first advance turned into a slightly more than 80,000 votes, which sparked conspiracy theories about the theft of elections. Mr. Schmidt, who was then a local commissioner in Philadelphia, was targeted by Mr. Trump on Twitter for refusing to investigate a “mountain of corruption”. Threats from Maga Follow the supporters.
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Election Day
Open opinion polls in Pennsylvania. The voting cards start in the mail
Opinion polls in Pennsylvania. The deadline for access to the polling cards in the mail
Unofficial results begin to be published by local election councils in 67 Pennsylvania provinces. In 2020, the close vote means that four days were approved before the major news organizations announced that Joe Biden won the state.
In Pennsylvania, the official Canvass begins for the elections. The provinces “comply” their voices to verify that the number of people registered as voting in each region that matches the number of cards that are calculated. Officials are also verified by temporary capacity
The informal boycott is due to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pennsylvania. Re -send appeals must be submitted within the next five days. If there is no need for reviews, you must believe the provinces
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pennsylvania orders an automatic sorting of any state level in the margin of a half -percentage point
You must start a narration in Pennsylvania at a date that does not exceed this date
The deadline for the provinces in Pennsylvania to ratify the Foreign Minister, who then begins a testimony at the state level
The deadline for conservatives (or, in the province of Colombia, the mayor) to submit a confirmation certificate, and the name of their statements, to the national archives
Voters meet in their government capitals to cast their votes
The deadline for the votes of the electoral college that will be sent to the national archives and the President of the Senate (i.e. Kamala Harris as a vice president)
Congress meets to calculate the votes of the electoral college and confirm the winner. Kamala Harris heads
The new president has been opened
In 2020, it took four days until the state’s news, which provided enough total electoral votes to issue Mr. Biden’s victory. This delay stems partially from the fact that Pennsylvania prevents officials from voting before treatment before election day. They cannot remove voting cards from their envelopes, verify signatures and prepare polls to count machines. (Wisconsin is the only oscillating state that restricts prior treatment.) In 2020, in the middle of the epidemic, 39 % of the post -mail polling cards were thrown in Pennsylvania. The class may not be very high this time.
In Pennsylvania, the count – or “Canvass” – starts from postcards at 7 am on election day. Most provinces are required in the state, because they receive funding for the state, keep it until the task ends, without stopping. To be calculated, postal votes must be received by the time when opinion polls are closed at 8 pm on election day.
Countries write laws and appoint teachers to manage the elections, but the provinces deal with the largest part of the work. John Jones, a former federal judge in Pennsylvania, says they are like feuds. America has more than 3000 of them. Provincial Commissioners choose Players, recruit employees and supervision of Canvass. Then they report their lists of state officials, who add them all and believe the result at the state level. Certification means that ratification of accuracy and completion of counting; Until then, it returns informal.
Mr. Trump’s allies who call without evidence that the 2020 elections were closed from the most important jobs at the state level in Arizona, Pennsylvania and even those swinging countries governed by Republicans. As a result, it is unlikely that the owners of the state office will prohibit martyrdom if Mr. Trump loses. But some of the rogue officials at the boycott level may withhold the certificate and thus hinder the rest of the process. Their job is “ministerial”, not appreciation, and the courts have ruled. They have no authority to investigate fraud or errors – under Pennsylvania, that is, for prosecutors and courts. In October, a judge in Georgia spent that the boycott elections councils could not “play the investigator, the public prosecutor, the jury and the judge” if he doubts fraud, and that they should be certified as soon as the count is over.
However, if Mr. Trump loses, it is possible that some boycott commissioners claim violations and refuse to believe, and calls for confrontation with state officials. Dozens have already tried this in the elections that have been held over the past four years in every state of Surjouh but Wisconsin. When two Republican officials in Wayne County, Michigan, refused to ratify the 2020 channel there, Tweet Trump: “The courage is a beautiful thing.” In 2022, a Republican Commissioner in Otiro County, New Mexico, said, Certification rejected The initial elections were based on “the feeling of the intestine”, not “evidence.” These cases were resolved when state officials or candidates either secured or threatened to search for a “Mandamus”, which is for the truce of the court to ratify. In Arizona, two scoflaws were accused.
However, even failed efforts can mean long delay. In the state of Pennsylvania, during the preliminary elections in 2022, three councils of boycotting the majority of republics of the republics rejected the ratification of results because they decided that it was not necessary to calculate the wrong postal votes, unlike the state’s guidelines. The courts ordered the councils to include that poll and eventually complied – more than three months after the preliminary elections. (Since then, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that the wrong postal polling cards should not be calculated.
This law requires conservatives – in the case of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, Democrat – to provide results at the state level by December 11. These are known as “Certification Certificates”. To meet this date, the states impose the previous deadlines on the provinces: in Pennsylvania, is November 25. Some provinces of Pennsylvania can miss the deadline if they narrated slow walking, it is believed that Mr. Jones, who expects Mr. Schmidt to be looking for a paint from Mandamus in such cases. (In the state of Pennsylvania, Sorrite is operated automatically in any race where the margin of victory is half a percentage or less. The voters or candidates can ask the courts to re -sort them if the margin is larger, but they must usually provide evidence of fraud or error.)
Lawyers and courts, on their part, are preparing to move quickly. According to the rules submitted by the highest court in Pennsylvania, the timetable for the appeal of the court’s decision was pressed. Bin Jeffen of the Public Authority Law Center in Philadelphia says, which will usually happen two or three months in several days. As for the voters ’fraud, the courts had no little patience for the trial.
Certificates of confirmation of state voters are determined. These are representatives of the winning candidate party in every state, who pledge to vote in their favor in the electoral college. Voters in government capitals will meet on December 17 to fulfill this festive role. On January 6, Congress calculates voters ’votes and approved the winner. After the elections in 2020, Republican lawmakers objected to the votes of Arizona and Pennsylvania; Eight of the Senate and 139 members of Congress voted for one or both. This will be more difficult this time: a federal law was raised in 2022 the threshold to submit an objection from one member in each room to five members in each of them. Maintaining objection requires the majority in each of them.
The entire process looks very complex is the product of federalism and the old electoral college system. He faces such pressure is the result of Mr. Trump’s attacks. Unlike four years, everyone is suitable for weaknesses now. “We will not be busy with our trousers,” says Jeffen. He adds that the greatest anxiety is to get rid of information and lack of confidence. This problem cannot be solved by the courts. ■
