California has officially confirmed the outcome of the presidential election and appointed 55 voters to commit to voting for Democrat Joe Biden. He thus officially secured the majority needed for the election of the American president, the AP agency said on Saturday.
After California Secretary of State Alex Padilla formally confirmed Biden’s victory in the state, the Democratic White House candidate has secured the votes of at least 279 voters. 270 voters would be enough for him to win. When the election results are officially confirmed by Colorado, Hawaii and New Jersey, which have not yet done so, Biden will have 306 voters, while Trump 232, the AP wrote.
She admitted that these steps are often ignored formalities after the election. But this year’s hidden election mechanisms have come to the fore as incumbent Republican President Donald Trump continues to deny Biden’s victory and seeks increasingly speculative legal strategies to reverse the election results.
Biden’s victory itself has been evident for several weeks. However, the formal confirmation of more than 270 voters represents a “legal milestone” on the way to the White House, stress law professor Edward B. Foley said, adding that everything before it was just a “projection.”
National voters will meet on December 14 to formally elect the next president. Most states have laws that oblige their constituents to cast their votes for the winners of the vote in that state. This measure confirmed this year’s decision of the Supreme Court. The results are to be approved by Congress on January 6.
“We practically know that Joe Biden will be in office on January 20,” Foley told AP.
Trump and his allies have opened at least fifty lawsuits seeking to reverse the results, particularly in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. However, more than 30 lawsuits have already been rejected or withdrawn, the AP said. She added that Trump and his allies also came up with the idea that Republican-dominated legislatures in those states could appoint rival voters who would promise their votes to Trump. But Republican leaders in those states have rejected it, and this approach would probably be futile anyway. According to federal law, both chambers of Congress would have to approve these alternative voters, the AP added.
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