The US election is over.
But the result has not yet been determined.
This complicates the further process.
Because there are important dates on the plan in the coming months.
On November 3rd, the US elected its future president.
But a result is a long time coming, there is a close duel between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
There are important dates in the coming weeks.
Munich - The
USA
have voted.
More than 150 million people have cast their votes to support their favorite
presidential candidate
.
And what happened, what many probably feared: At the end of the day there is no winner, neither
Donald Trump *
nor
Joe Biden *
have so far united the necessary majority of
270 electors
.
It can take days, if not weeks, for something to change.
In more than a handful of the 50 states,
not all votes have been counted
.
Time is of the essence, but not as much as it would in many other countries around the world.
Because until January
20 of
next year, the
official business
will remain
in the hands of Trump anyway.
Only on that Wednesday will the future ruler be
sworn
in in the
White House
.
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Counting millions of votes: The election workers had to do piecework.
© Ethan Miller / afp
2020 US election: losing candidate has to publicly admit defeat
But how does it go up to this second important date?
Initially,
legal disputes
threaten
, Trump already announced the appeal to the
Supreme Court
, in which he had
installed * an ultra-conservative successor to the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg *
with
Amy Coney Barrett *
.
In addition, the entire electoral system in the USA * is based on the fact that the loser
publicly
admits his
defeat
.
But that is not to be expected anytime soon.
Especially since the ultimately decisive
538 electors
as representatives of the federal states and the ordinary voters do not vote until December
14th
.
By then, a result from each of the states must
have been reported
to the Senate-House
Congress
.
2020 US election: Postal voting documents cannot be received until after November 3rd
As Edward Foley, Professor of Law,
pointed out
in the
Guardian
, Congress could
challenge and independently review
any
result submitted
after
December 8th
.
This left exactly
five weeks
for the count.
However, there are also numerous countries in which
postal voting documents *
can only be received in the days after the actual election day - if they were sent by November 3rd or in some places on November 2nd at the latest.
In contested
Pennsylvania
, ballot papers received
on
November 6th are
still being counted.
In
Wisconsin
, where Trump and Biden are also in a head-to-head race, election officials have to
wait
until November
9th
.
The postal ballot papers will be accepted in
Nevada for
a day longer
.
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Waiting for the result: this American also has to be patient.
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2020 US election: The result will not be officially announced until January 6, 2021
When the
official result is
announced, we will already be in the year 2021. On January
6th,
two weeks before the swearing-in and inauguration, the
election votes will be recorded by Congress
and their distribution by the Senate President - currently Republican Chuck Grassley - presented.
Only then is it really clear who will lead the US in the
next four years
.
Will Trump Remain the Most Powerful Man in the World?
Or does Biden rise to the 46th US President?
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“Thank you for choosing”: This message will soon be barely able to comfort around half of Americans.
© KEREM YUCEL / afp
2020 US Election: Two Important Books for the President
What is certain is that the future head of state
will receive
,
among other things, the 1000-page
“Government Manual” when he is
inaugurated on January 20
- this is what the
legal regulations
want
.
The so-called
plum book
- in the original
"plum book"
- also becomes the property of the US President: it
lists
all of the approximately
9,000 top positions
that can be filled in government or subordinate authorities.
In addition to positions in the White House, this also includes senior officials in government departments.
When assembling the cabinet, the main focus is on the “big four”:
the foreign, defense, finance and justice ministries
.
The
Ministry of Health
will also be in the limelight more than usual
-
if
only because of the
corona pandemic *
.
And the
Ministry of Homeland Security
should also play
a more important role in
light of
Trump's restrictive immigration policy
.
The
worst-case scenario
for the country would probably be a Biden victory, which Trump does not recognize at all.
Then the incumbent would hardly
invite
his opponent to the
mandatory meetings
to plan the transition between the two teams.
If so,
Biden could be
sworn
in on Jan.
20
while Trump is bunkering in the White House.
However, there has never been a comparable situation in recent US history.
(mg, dpa) * merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen digital network
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